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If you are an Ayn Rand fan like me, the first thing that comes to my mind when anybody says architecture is the love of Howard Roark for architecture.
If you ask famous and successful architects, they will look at architecture beyond designing and call it an art of another dimension.
Our architecture quotes collection is for all those who love architecture as passionately as Roark from ‘Fountainhead’ does.
Also, all these quotes from architecture are words from famous designers and architect professionals.
If you echo the same feelings of Frank Lloyd Wright ‘that a building is not just a place to be but a way to be,’ then keep reading.
Best Architecture Quotes and Sayings
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.
– Harry Seidler
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
– Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.
– Luis Barragan
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
– Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
– Frank Gehry
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.
– Louis Kahn
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The hand expresses what the heart already knows.
– Samuel Mockbee
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
– Alvar Aalto
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again.
– Renzo Piano
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
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.
– Gaetano Pesce
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.
– Jan Gehl
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
– Walter Gropius
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful, it gives it power.
– Claudio Silvestrin
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
– Richard Rogers
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
– Julia Morgan
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
– Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
– Yoshio Taniguchi
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
– Norman Foster
Architecture can’t force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
– Denise Scott Brown
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.
– Juhani Pallasmaa
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.
– Lebbeus Woods
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
– Winston Churchill
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
– Philip Johnson
Home development is about wishful thinking. It’s about capturing a dream.
– Barbara Delinsky
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can’t be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
– Maya Lin
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
– Arthur Erickson
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst you need them both.
– Karl Lagerfeld
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
– I. M. Pei
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
– Barbara Kruger
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
– Leonard Baskin
Architecture is an expression of values.
– Norman Foster
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
– Louis Kahn
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
– Zaha Hadid
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
– Steven Holl
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
– I. M. Pei
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
– Louis Kahn
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder.
– Daniel Libeskind
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light.
– Le Corbusier
This building is like a book. It’s architecture is the binding, it’s text is in the glass and sculpture.
– Malcolm Miller
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights.
– Barbara Kruger
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
– Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
– Jim Rohn
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
– Luis Barragan
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