These 101 Architectural phrases Belong to some of the most famous and important architects such as Antoni Gaudi, Richard Meier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright or Le Corbusier.
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1-We shape our buildings, then they give us shape. Winston Churchill .
2-Architecture is an expression of values.-Norman Foster.
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3-Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. Must be an original interpreter of his time, his days, his age.-Frank Lloyd Wright.
4-Those who look at the laws of nature to support their new works collaborate with the creator.-Antoni Gaudi.
5-The architecture begins when putting two bricks together carefully.-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
6-Architecture is not an inspirational business, it is a rational procedure to do beautiful things.-Harry Seidler.
7-I call architecture frozen music.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
8-The dialogue between client and architect is as intimate as any other conversation you may have, because when you talk about building a house, you talk about dreams.-Robert A. M. Stern.
9-Architecture should speak of its time and place, but long for timelessness.-Frank Gehry.
10-Architecture is a visual art and buildings speak for themselves.-Julia Morgan.
11-My buildings will be my legacy, they'll speak for me long after I'm gone.-Julia Morgan.
12-The great buildings that move the spirit have always been strange. In each are unique, poetic, products of the heart.-Arthur Erickson.
13-Architecture is the art of spending space.-Philip Johnson.
14-Architecture begins where engineering ends.-Walter Gropius.
15-If you have total freedom, you are in trouble. It is much better when you have some obligations, discipline, rules. When you have no rules, you begin to build your own rules.-Renzo Piano.
16-All architecture is great after sunset; Perhaps architecture is a night art, like fireworks.-Gilbert K. Chesterton.
17-Good buildings come from good people and all problems are solved by good designs.-Stephen Gardiner.
18-The architecture, of all the arts, is the one that acts more slowly, but surely the one that more in the soul.-Ernest Dimnet.
19-I am nothing more than an architectural composer.-Alexander Jackson Davis.
20-I do not build to have customers. I have clients to build.""Ayn Rand.
21-Whatever we build ends up constructing ourselves. -Jim Rohn.
22-Architecture is invention.-Oscar Niemeyer.
23-It is not the beauty of a building that should be looked at; It is the construction of the foundations that will stand the test of time.-David Allan Coe.
24-We are called to be the architects of the future, not their victims.-R. Buckminster Fuller.
25-A world that sees art and engineering as divided, is not seeing the world as a whole.-Edmund Happold.
26-The mother of art is architecture. Without the architecture of our own being we have no soul of our own civilization.-Frank Lloyd Wright.
27-The ancient Romans built their masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in them.-Voltaire.
28-Every new situation requires a new architecture.-Jean Nouvel.
29-A house is a machine to live.-Le Corbusier.
30-Architects in the past have tried to focus their attention on the building as a static object. I think the dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.-John Portman.
31-I try to give people a different way of seeing their surroundings. That's art for me.-Maya Lin.
32-The identity of the building resides in the ornament.-Louis Sullivan.
33-Providing meaningful architecture is not parodying history, but articulating it.-Daniel Libeskind.
34-Architecture is inhabited sculpture.-Constantin Brancusi.
35-I think the way people live can be directed a bit by architecture.-Tadao Ando.
36-The higher the building, the deeper it should lay the foundation.-Thomas to Kempis.
37-I think the limitations are very important. They are positive because they allow you to work on something.-Charles Gwathmey.
38-Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is an error.-Luis Barragán.
39-You can not just put something a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on earth and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.-Tadao Ando.
40-Forms follow the function.-Louis Sullivan.
41-Architecture is the Reach of Truth.-Louis Kahn.
42-I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move in the future.-Tadao Ando.
43-Architecture points to eternity.-Christopher Wren.
44-Color in certain places has the great value of making the contours and structural planes appear more energetic.-Antoni Gaudi.
45-In any architecture there is an equality between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.-Michael Graves.
46-Architecture stirs feelings in man. Your task is therefore to make those feelings more precise.-Adolf Loos.
47-Architecture is the learned, correct and magnificent game of forms assembled in the light.-Le Corbusier.
48-It's very simple to be different, but very difficult to be the best.-Jonathan Ive.
49-Each building is a prototype. There are no two alike.-Helmut Jahn.
50-We architects can affect the quality of life of people.-Richard Rogers.
51-I think the material does not need to be strong to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the force of the material.-Shigeru Ban.
52-Rome has not seen a modern building in over half a century. It is a city frozen in time.-Richard Meier.
53-If you think you can not make the world a better place with your work, at least make sure you do not make it worse.-Herman Hertzberger.
54-No architecture is as arrogant as it is simple.-John Ruskin.
55-The principle of Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
56-We do not create the job. I think we are discoverers.- Glenn Murcutt.
57-Architecture is the will of an era translated in space.-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
58-A building has integrity just like a man.-Ayn Rand.
59-All architecture is a refuge, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, exalts, embraces or stimulates people in that space.-Philip Johnson.
60-Architects always talk about space. But creating space is not automatically making architecture. With the same space, you can do a masterpiece or cause a disaster.-Jean Nouvel.
61-Beware of overconfidence, especially in terms of structure.-Cass Gilbert.
62-We should concentrate our work not only on problems of separate houses, but on homes that participate in our daily work and all other functions in the city.-Alvar Aalto.
63-Architecture can not fully represent the chaos and turbulences that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of those turbulences to make it real.-Frank Stella.
64-Cities are the great creations of humanity.-Daniel Libeskind.
65-The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend in it.-David Chipperfield.
66-The architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.-Toyo Ito.
67-A product is often more useful if the costs are lowered without harming the quality.-Charles Eames.
68-I'm looking for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should provoke the emotion of the novel.-Oscar Niemeyer.
69-The architecture we remember is the one that never comforts or comforts us.-Peter Eisenman.
70-Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope you enjoy not so much the cup of tea, but the tea.-Yoshio Taniguchi.
71-Architecture is a constant struggle between man and nature, the struggle to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the floor. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; Is a sacred act.-Mario Botta.
72. A real great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once again in old age, just as a good building should be seen in the morning light, in the evening and in the light of The moon.-Robertson Davies.
73-The future of architecture is culture.-Philip Johnson.
74-Architecture is about public space in the hands of buildings.-Richard Rogers.
75-I do not divide architecture, landscape and gardening; For me they are one.-Luis Barragan.
76-If a building becomes architecture, it is art.-Arne Jacobsen.
77. Inconsistency in itself engenders vitality.-Kenzo Tange.
78-Architecture is about well-being. I think people want to feel good in space. On the one hand it is about living, but also about pleasure.-Zaha Hadid.
79-When an architect is questioned by his best building, usually responds"next."- Emilio Ambasz.
80-Architecture is basically the interior design, the art of organizing the interior space.-Philip Johnson.
81-There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.-Gilbert K. Chesterton.
82-Each material has its own shadow. The shadow of the stone is not the same as that of a crisp autumn leaf. The shadow penetrates the material and radiates its message.-Sverre Fern.
"You can put a book face down; You can avoid listening to bad music; But you can not miss the ugly tower in front of your house.-Renzo Piano.
84-Bridges are perhaps the most invisible forms of public architecture.-Bruce Jackson.
85-The rules of navigation never sailed a boat. The rules of architecture never built a house.-Thomas Reid.
86-A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it is a place where the rich go in public transport.-Enrique Peñalosa.
87-Architecture is to make space reflexively.-Louis Kahn.
88-Architecture is art, nothing more.-Philip Johnson.
89-I think buildings should mimic ecological ecosystems.-Ken Yeang.
90-The work of art shows people new directions and thoughts of the future.Adolf Loos.
91-My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.-Luis Barragan.
92-If architecture is frozen music, then music must be liquid architecture.-Quincy Jones.
93-All important architectural work will create controversy.-Richard Meier.
94-The function of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture should facilitate them, not make them worse.-Ralph Erskine.
95-Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.-Alvar Aalto.
96-Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.-Rem Koolhaas.
97-You must accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.-Renzo Piano.
98-We have to base architecture on the environment.-Toyo Ito.
99-Great architects always transcend their function, sometimes in unforeseen ways.-Martin Filler.
100-There is a profound ethic in architecture that is different from the other arts.-Moshe Safdie.
101-Architecture enriches the vision of the soul.