Famous Architect Quotes

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1. Adolf Loos Architecture arouses sentiments in a man. 21. Oscar I have always accepted and respected all
The architect's task therefore is to make Niemeyer schools of architecture. From the chill and
those sentiments more precise. elemental structure of Mies van der Rohe, to
the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must
2. Alvar Aalto Nature, not the machine, should serve as
design what pleases me in a way that is
the model for architecture
naturally linked to my root and the country of
3. Arne Jacobson If a building becomes architecture, then it my origin.
is art.
22. R. When I draw a circle, I immediately want to
4. Charles Eames It is not easy to do something good, but it Buckminster step out of it.
is extremely difficult to do something bad. Fuller
5. Daniel To provide meaningful architecture is not to 23. Renzo One of the great beauties of architecture is that
Libeskind parody history but to articulate it. Piano each time, it's like life starting all over again.
6. Frank Gehry I don't know why people hire architects 24. Renzo Architects spend an entire life with this
and tell them what to do. Piano unreasonable idea that you can fight against
7. Frank Lloyd The mother art is architecture. Without an gravity.
Wright architecture of our own, we have no soul 25. Robert Less is a bore. More is more.
of our own civilization. Venturi
8. John Ruskin When we build, let us think that we build 26. Tadao Ando I would like my architecture to inspire people
forever. to use their own resources, to move into the
9. Kenzo Tange Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. future.

10. Kenzo Tange Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot 27. Zaha Hadid There are 360 degrees. Why stick to one?
be expected to last long.
11. Le Corbusier A hundred times I have thought that New
(Charles York is a catastrophe. Amd 50 times: it is a
Edouard beautiful catastrophe
Jeanneret )
12. Le Corbusier The house is a machine for living in.
(Charles
Edouard
Jeanneret )
13. Leonardo da Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Vinci
14. Louis Khan The sun does not realize how beautiful it is
until a room is made.
15. Louis Khan Architectural form should reflect a
building's social purpose
16. Louis Sullivan Form ever follows function.
17. Meis van der Architecture is the will of an epoch
Rohe translated into space.
18. Mies van der Less is more
Rohe
19. Norman Foster As an architect, you design for the present,
with an awareness of the past, for a future
which is essentially unknown.
20. Oscar My work is not about "form follows
Niemeyer function," but "form follows beauty," or
even better, "form follows feminine."