Master Architect's Dictum
"The life of an architect is one of fight: Fight against the ugliness"
Massimo Vignelli
"I don't believe in morality in architecture"
Michael Graves
"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function"
Michael Graves
"Architecture is expression of poetry"
Oscar Niemeyer
"Architecture is invention"
Oscar Niemeyer
"Form follows beauty"
Oscar Niemeyer
"Buildings can have a beautiful Silence"
Peter Zumthor
"I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world"
Peter Zumthor
"Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity"
Renzo Piano
"One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again"
Renzo Piano
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victim"
Richard Buckminster Fuller
"Design is how, form is what"
Richard Rogers
"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times"
Richard Rogers
"Everyone used to want to be a star architect. That's no longer the case"
Shigeru Ban
"Each material has its own shadow of stone is not the same as that of a brittle autumn leaf. The shadow penetrates the materials and radiates its message"
Sverre Fehn
"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see"
Tadao Ando
"Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand"
Toyo Ito
"Art and Architecture, the new unity"
Walter Gropius
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea"
Yoshio Taniguchi
"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 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
"There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?"
Zaha Hadid
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise"
Adolf Loos
"Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected"
Adolf Loos
"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together"
Alvar Aalto
"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic"
Antoni Gaudi
"Those who look for the laws of nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator"
Antoni Gaudi
"Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die"
Daniel Burnham
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"
Daniel Burnham
"Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder"
Daniel Libeskind
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity"
Daniel Libeskind
"To provide meaningful architecture is not parody history but to articulate it"
Daniel Libeskind
"I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some positions of Integrity"
David Chipperfield
"Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper"
Eduardo Suoto de Moura
"When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers: "the next one""
Emilio Ambas
"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of building"
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but should yearn for timelessness"
Frank Gehry
"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity"
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I tell my students: You must put into your work first effort, second love, and third suffering"
Glenn Murcutt
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beatiful things, that's all"
Harry Seidler
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity"
I.M Pei
"There are many architects who aren't really aware of their own patterns, just like most people don't know their patterns in private. We find that a really exciting theme because architecture and psychology suddenly become closer"
Jacques Herzog
"Each new situation requires a new architecture"
Jean Nouvel
"Architecture in the past have tended to concentrate their attention to the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition"
John Portman
"Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience"
John Portman
"There is a rumor that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine"
Jorn Utzon
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves"
Julia Morgan
"My buildings will be my legacy... They will speak for me after I'm long gone"
Julia Morgan
"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future"
Kenzo Tange
"Modern architecture need not be western"
Kenzo Tange
"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
"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
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"
Louis Kahn
"Form follows function"
Louis Sullivan
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins"
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
"God is in the details"
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
"Less is more"
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
