If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. Tadao Ando on architecture
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. Marcus V. Pollio on architecture
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. Arne Jacobsen on architecture
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all. Harry Seidler on architecture
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Rem Koolhaas on architecture
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. Daniel Libeskind on architecture
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. Michael Ende on architecture
If I have a style, I am not aware of it. Michael Graves on architecture
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. John Osborne on architecture
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. Adolf Loos on architecture
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. Thom Mayne on architecture
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. Jimmy Breslin on architecture
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. Robert A. M. Stern on architecture
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. Harry Seidler on architecture
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. Russell Lynes on architecture
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. Antonio Gaudi on architecture
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. Michael Graves on architecture
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. Martin Puryear on architecture
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. James Rouse on architecture