Architecture Quotes
Most popular architecture quotes
Less is more.
Architecture in general is frozen music.
God is in the details.
If we build in the desert, let the house know the desert and the desert be proud of the house.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
The physician can bury his mistakes,—but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in; it is the social art par excellence, the carapace of political fantasy, the exoskeleton of one's economic dreams. It is also the one art nobody can escape.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Architecture deals with spaces, the thoughtful and meaningful making of spaces.
Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. Now it is persuasive, even flattering, and at other times merely commanding.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
We shape our buildings, then they shape us.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
