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The creative manipulation encompasses our intellectual ideas to become a reality with carefully planned drawings, specifications, and structures. If you’re an architecture lover or an aspiring architect, we’ve got a great treat for you. Today we collected sixty famous architecture quotes about architecture and architectural design. Enjoy!
Famous architecture quotes part 1:
1. “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”
– Daniel Libeskind -
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2. “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”
– Daniel Libeskind -
3. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso -
4. “A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.”
– Louis Kahn -
5. “In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.”
– Emilio Ambasz -
6. “Form ever follows function.”
– Louis Henry Sullivan -
7. “A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.”
– Renzo Piano -
8. “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
– Frank Gehry -
9. “Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.”
– John M. Johansen -
10. “I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.”
– Tadao Ando -
11. “It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.”
– Charles Eames -
12. “Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.”
– Renzo Piano -
13. “To create, one must first question everything.”
– Eileen Gray -
14. “Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
– Yoshio Taniguchi -
15. “Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.”
– Luis Barragán -
16. “When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
– John Ruskin -
17. “Less is more.”
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
18. “When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong.”
– Buckminster Fuller -
19. “As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
– Norman Foster -
20. “Form follows profit – is the aesthetic principle of our times.”
– Richard Rogers -
21. “Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder.”
– Daniel Libeskind -
22. “I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?”
– Philip Johnson -
23. “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
– Le Corbusier -
24. “There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular, to look like it is changing the world. I don’t care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.”
– David Chipperfield -
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25. “Each new situation requires a new architecture.”
– Jean Nouvel -
26. “The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.”
– Peter Eisenman -
27. “If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
– Arne Jacobsen -
28. “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright -
29. “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
– Ernest Hemingway -
30. “The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
– Ralph Erskine -
31. “Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure.”
– Zaha Hadid -
32. “A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
– Le Corbusier -
33. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci -
34. “Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
– Walter Gropius -
35. “There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”
– Zaha Hadid -
36. “I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.”
– Luis Barragán -
37. “I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.”
– Frank Gehry -
38. “To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.”
– Eero Saarinen -
39. “I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.”
– Toyo Ito -
40. “We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.”
– Glenn Murcutt -
41. “Architecture is not about space but about time.”
– Vito Acconci -
42. “One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”
– Renzo Piano -
43. “People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They’re thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.”
– Tom Kundig -
44. “When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.”
– Richard Meier -
45. “I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.”
– Tadao Ando -
46. “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright -
47. “I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I’m content.”
– Cecil Balmond -
48. “I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.”
– Neri Oxman -
49. “Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.”
– Kenzo Tange -
50. “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
– Mies van der Rohe -
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