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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn on architecture

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Alvar Aalto on architecture

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

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

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind on architecture

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.
Martha Graham on architecture

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers on architecture

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
Maya Lin on architecture

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan on architecture

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe on architecture

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Philip Johnson on architecture

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn on architecture

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Helmut Jahn on architecture

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
Thomas a Kempis on architecture

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
Donna Karan on architecture

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan on architecture

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Minoru Yamasaki on architecture

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen on architecture

What people want, above all, is order.
Stephen Gardiner on architecture

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner on architecture