“A harmonious design requires
that nothing be added or taken
away.”
Vitruvius
“A house is a machine for living
in.”
Le Corbusier
“Architecture is the learned
game, correct and magnificent,
of forms assembled in the light.”
Le Corbusier
“For the first time perhaps,
the pressing problems of
architecture were solved in
a modern spirit. Economy,
sociology, aesthetics: a new
solution using new
methods.”
Le Corbusier
“Architecture is the will of an
epoch translated into space.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Less is more.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Economic, technical, and
cultural conditions have
changed radically.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Less is a bore.”
Robert Venturi
“Form is not the aim of our
work, only the result.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Architecture is the art of how to
waste space.”
Philip Johnson
“An idea is salvation by
imagination.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The mother art is architecture.
Without an architecture of our
own, we have no soul of our own
civilization.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Space is the breath of art.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“A great architect is not made by
way of a brain nearly so much as
he is made by way of a
cultivated, enriched heart.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Form follows function.”
Louis Sullivan
“Organic architecture seeks
superior sense of use and a finer
sense of comfort, expressed in
organic simplicity.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“We shape our buildings;
thereafter they shape us.”
Winston Churchill
“The first principle of
architectural beauty is that
the essential lines of a
construction be determined
by a perfect appropriateness
to its use.”
Gustave Eiffel
“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
“The dialogue between client
and architect is about as
intimate as any conversation
you can have because when
you’re talking about building a
house, you’re talking about
dreams.”
Robert A.M. Stern
“A museum is a place where
one should lose one’s head.”
Renzo Piano
“As an architect you design for
the present, with an awareness
of the past, for a future which
is essentially unknown.”
Norman Foster
“Architecture is an expression of
values.”
Norman Foster
“Our ultimate goal,
therefore, was the
composite but inseparable
work of art — the great
building — in which the old
dividing line between
monumental and
decorative elements would
have disappeared forever.”
Walter Gropius
