Architect Quotes - Page 3

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Architecture is not about form

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings