Architecture Quotes

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn

A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
John Portman

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos

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

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi

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

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
Harry von Zell

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

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 all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
John Portman