Famous Architecture Quotes

“God is in the details.” – Mies van der Rohe

“Form ever follows function.” – Louis Sullivan
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” – Charles Eames
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the
light.” – Le Corbusier
“An idea is salvation by imagination.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Less is more.” – Mies van der Rohe
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.” – Rem Koolhaas
“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
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if
the solution is not beautiful I know it’s 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
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” –
Daniel Libeskind
“To create, one must first question everything.” – Eileen Gray
“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
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” – Zaha Hadid
“I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.” – Frank Gehry
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over
again.” – Renzo Piano
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of
our own civilization.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
My work is not about “form follows function”, but “form follows beauty” or, even better,
“form follows feminine”. – Oscar Niemeyer