A house is a machine for living in.
5 quotes from Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 other quotes from Le Corbusier
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
5 more views from Le Corbusier
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
78 quotes from Voltaire
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 more quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 sayings from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 more wisdom & wit from Adolf Loos
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 views from Noel Coward
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 quotes from John Osborne
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 sayings from Adolf Loos
What people want, above all, is order.
13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 wisdom & wit from Julia Morgan
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 more quotes from Robert Smithson
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 other 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 more thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
2 more wisdom & wit from Julia Morgan
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 loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
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 quotes from Lord Byron
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 wisdom & wit from Ernest Dimnet
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 wisdom & wit from Constantin Brancusi
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 more thoughts from Ayn Rand
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
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 other quotes from Louis Kahn
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 more quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 views from Ayn Rand
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Less is more.
5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 views from Luis Barragan
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 more wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 quotes from Thomas Reid
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
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 other quotes from Martha Graham
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 sayings from Salvador Dali
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 views from Charles Eames
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
26 other wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
I am but an architectural composer.
2 wisdom & wit from Alexander Jackson Davis
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 quotes from William Bennett
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 wisdom & wit from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
16 quotes from Coco Chanel
Form follows function.
2 quotes from Louis Sullivan
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 more quotes from Daniel Burnham
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 wisdom & wit from Louis Sullivan