Architecture Quotes
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
