287 Quotes Regarding Architecture


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

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

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

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

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

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Marcus V. Pollio

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

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
Harry Seidler

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Daniel Libeskind

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

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
Michael Graves

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

Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan

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

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
Thom Mayne

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Jimmy Breslin

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

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