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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? Philip
Johnson
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility.
I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. Frank Lloyd
Wright
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Mies van der Rohe
Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and
less. Alvar Aalto
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the
individuality of the building. Louis Sullivan
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Rem Koolhaus
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to
plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. Luis
Barragn
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. John Ruskin
When Im working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when Ive finished,
if the solution is not beautiful I know its wrong. Buckminster Fuller
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a
future which is essentially unknown. Norman Foster
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. Its
based on wonder. Daniel Libeskind
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
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that
are built. Emilio Ambasz
A museum is a place where one should lose ones head. Renzo Piano
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.
John M. Johansen
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move
into the future. Tadao Ando
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight
against gravity. Renzo Piano
To create, one must first question everything. Eileen Gray
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular, to look like it is
changing the world. I dont care how a building looks if it means something, not to
architects, but to the people who use it. David Chipperfield
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. Peter
Eisenman
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them,
not make them worse. Ralph Erskine
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in
a space On the one hand its about shelter, but its also about pleasure. Zaha
Hadid
I dont divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis
Barragn
I dont know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. Frank
Gehry
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
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. Glenn
Murcutt
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life
starting all over again. Renzo Piano
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are
curious about life. Theyre thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather
than just buying a commodity and making it work. Tom Kundig
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
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul
of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and Im content. Cecil
Balmond
I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. Neri
Oxman
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Mies van der Rohe
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. Louis
Kahn
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and
only when, they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs
My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even
better, form follows feminine. Oscar Niemeyer