Architects Quotes

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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?

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

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

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.

A house is a machine for living.

Buckminster Fuller

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts.

Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Goethe

Form ever follows function.

Louis H. Sullivan

Buildings should be good neighbours.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

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.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

Claes Oldenberg

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

Alan Kay

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Mies Van Der Rohe

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

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Constantin Brancusi

The flowering of geometry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Mies Van Der Rohe

An arch never sleeps.

Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.

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 is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

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

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

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

Robert A. M. Stern

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

The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William S Burroughs

With an architect as your guide, you canresponsibly stop worrying about what spacessomeone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Jamie L. Harding

when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects