Here's a short collection of famous lines by Architects and non-Architects pertaining to Architecture:
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Ludwid Mies van der Rohe Quotes
Le Corbusier Quotes
Louis Khan Quotes
Louis Sullivan Quotes
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis H. Sullivan
Walter Gropius Quotes
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Walter Gropius
Buckminster Fuller Quotes
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art. (On Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim as a place to experience art)
Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Eero Saarinen
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” – Charles Eames
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.” – Rem Koolhaus
Robert A. M. Stern
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My work is not about “form follows function”, but “form follows beauty” or, even better, “form follows feminine”. – Oscar Niemeyer
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.
Oscar Niemeyer
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.” – Renzo Piano
“I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.” – Frank Gehry
Gehry
Man, there’s another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I’m interested in. (on using a grid)
Frank Gehry
The scary cousin in architecture’s dysfunctional family (on Frank Gehry)
Zev Borrow
“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure.” – Zaha Hadid
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” – Zaha Hadid
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” – Daniel Libeskind
Ram-shack-le /'ram-shak-el/ adj. : Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
Ambrose Bierce
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
Bruno Zevi
Ignorance transcends architecture.
James Gaskin
ar-chi-tect \är-ke-,tekt\ n. One who believes that conception comes before erection.
Rob Daly
We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.
Sir Winston Churchill
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
Roy Lichtenstein
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
E.B.White
Less is more work.
Patric McCue
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
Henry David Thoreau
Architecture is "frozen music"… Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
Goethe
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
Nancy Banks-Smith
Use your eyes; plagiarize.(On borrowing design strategies from other cultures.)
Steven Ehrlich
Architecture is easy: you just stare at the paper until droplets of blood appear on your forehead.
Unknown
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Charles, Prince of Wales
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
Charles, Prince of Wales
Commodity, firmness, delight...
Vitruvius
Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
Vincent Scully
Buildings should be good neighbours.
Paul Thiry
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Arthur Erickson
A building is a string of events belonging together.
Chris Fawcett
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Tao Ho
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people, and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
Kisho Kurokawa
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
Alan Kay
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
The flowering of geometry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Lao-Tzu
Good architecture lets nature in.
Mario Pei
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Leonard Baskin
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
Harwell Hamilton Harris
Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
Etienne Gaboury
In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.
Chao-Ming Wu
“To create, one must first question everything.” – Eileen Gray
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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