Famous quotes by Architects

"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole"

Leon Battista Alberti, Architect

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... If he can't see at least ten years ahead, don't call him an architect"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"If I have a style, I am not aware of it"

Michael Graves, Architect

"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"Less is more"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something, they want you to read it a hundred times"

Norton Juster, Architect

"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love"

Louis Kahn, Architect

"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Garden as though you will live forever"

William Kent, Architect

"To fly, we have to have resistance"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Form follows function"

Louis Sullivan, Architect

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

"My buildings don't speak in words, but by means of their own spaciousness"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Life, it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"I feel, however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

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