| Quote 7675 | Form follows function.
- Louis Sullivan |
| Quote 7686 | But the building's identity resided in the ornament. |
| Quote 7698 | Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. |
| Quote 7748 | My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. |
| Quote 7761 | Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. |
| Quote 7765 | Architecture is the art of how to waste space. |
| Quote 7848 | Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally h... |
| Quote 7969 | In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. |
| Quote 7973 | Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. |
| Quote 8004 | Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. |
| Quote 8024 | The higher the building the lower the morals. |
| Quote 8032 | I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. |
| Quote 8064 | To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. |
| Quote 8191 | Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. |
| Quote 8374 | Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. |
| Quote 8528 | Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. |
| Quote 8543 | I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. |
| Quote 8614 | An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. |
| Quote 8634 | Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. |
| Quote 8672 | Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. |
| Quote 8758 | I am but an architectural composer.
- Alexander Jackson Davis |
| Quote 8783 | 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 ... |
| Quote 9000 | 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 ... |
| Quote 9020 | Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. |
| Quote 9135 | Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. |
| Quote 9159 | 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 - ... |
| Quote 9200 | Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. |
| Quote 9281 | I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. |
| Quote 9292 | The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. |
| Quote 9338 | The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. |
| Quote 9390 | If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
- Michael Graves |
| Quote 9422 | Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glas... |
| Quote 9459 | We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doin... |
| Quote 9746 | 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. |
| Quote 9817 | I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. |
| Quote 9980 | In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. |
| Quote 10277 | Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. |
| Quote 10347 | Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. |
| Quote 10356 | 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... |
| Quote 10441 | Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains... |
| Quote 10471 | I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? |
| Quote 10483 | Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. |
| Quote 10597 | 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... |
| Quote 10611 | A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. |
| Quote 10757 | Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. |
| Quote 10793 | Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. |
| Quote 10796 | As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. |
| Quote 10810 | The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. |
| Quote 10907 | A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasu... |
| Quote 10968 | I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's... |
| Quote 11106 | I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. |
| Quote 11116 | We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. |
| Quote 11149 | Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. |
| Quote 11216 | The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. |
| Quote 11323 | What people want, above all, is order.
- Stephen Gardiner |
| Quote 11355 | If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. |
| Quote 11390 | Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. |
| Quote 11565 | For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic pu... |
| Quote 11682 | Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. |
| Quote 11956 | Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. |
| Quote 11977 | Whatever good things we build end up building us. |
| Quote 12003 | The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. |
| Quote 12329 | My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. |
| Quote 12636 | Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. |
| Quote 12650 | A house is a machine for living in.
- Louis Kahn |
| Quote 12707 | We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. |
| Quote 13217 | 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 tha... |
| Quote 13373 | Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all... |
| Quote 13902 | Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important:... |