Architecture Quotes

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

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

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

"Form follows function."

"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."

"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."

"Architecture begins where engineering ends."

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

"Each new situation requires a new architecture."

"I call architecture frozen music."

"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."

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

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator."

"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."

"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times."

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."

"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."

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

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."

"My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone."

"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."

"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence."

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around."