Architecture Quotes

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

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

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 sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

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.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

I am always searching for more light and space.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.