Architecture Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

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.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.