We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. John Ruskin on architecture
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller on architecture
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry on architecture
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one. Luis Barragan on architecture
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson on architecture
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. Richard Rogers on architecture
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto on architecture
The higher the building the lower the morals. Noel Coward on architecture
A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier on architecture
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. Louis Kahn on architecture
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Antonio Gaudi on architecture
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. Yoshio Taniguchi on architecture
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier on architecture
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. Tadao Ando on architecture
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. Arthur Erickson on architecture
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Arthur Erickson on architecture
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on architecture
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. Maya Lin on architecture