Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

architecture

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. 3 wisdom & wit from Minoru Yamasaki

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 68 more quotes from Samuel Butler

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. 2 more sayings from John Osborne

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. 3 views from Minoru Yamasaki

The higher the building the lower the morals. 3 quotes from Noel Coward

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. 4 sayings from Adolf Loos

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. 4 quotes from Adolf Loos

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. 12 other wisdom & wit from Thomas a Kempis

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. 13 thoughts from Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. 13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. 3 quotes from Robert Smithson

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. 13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. 2 wisdom & wit from Julia Morgan

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. 45 more thoughts from Thomas Fuller

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. 13 other views from Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. 13 views from Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. 36 more sayings from Lord Byron

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. 2 wisdom & wit from Julia Morgan

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. 3 quotes from Ernest Dimnet

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. 24 views from Ayn Rand

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. 3 more quotes from Louis Kahn

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. 24 sayings from Ayn Rand

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. 2 sayings from Constantin Brancusi

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. 4 wisdom & wit from Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. 3 other quotes from Louis Kahn

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. 4 other quotes from Arne Jacobsen

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. 45 thoughts from John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. 4 more quotes from Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. 5 more thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. 5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. 5 more quotes from Luis Barragan

Less is more. 5 other quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one. 5 quotes from Luis Barragan

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. 3 quotes from Thomas Reid

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. 5 quotes from Martha Graham

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. 52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. 11 more quotes from Salvador Dali

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 5 wisdom & wit from Charles Eames

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. 26 other sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. 26 other quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. 26 more thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright

All real education is the architecture of the soul. 2 quotes from William Bennett

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. 117 views from Henry David Thoreau

I am but an architectural composer. 2 other views from Alexander Jackson Davis

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. 2 other quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. 35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. 16 other views from Coco Chanel

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. 2 more thoughts from Daniel Burnham

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. 2 more wisdom & wit from Louis Sullivan

Form follows function. 2 quotes from Louis Sullivan

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. 24 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. 5 quotes from Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. 5 quotes from Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in. 5 other sayings from Le Corbusier

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. 78 quotes from Voltaire

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. 74 other views from Winston Churchill