Architects Quotes

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

A house is a machine for living.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.