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Quotes PDF
Says
Vitruvius
“A harmonious design requires that nothing be added
or taken away.”
Le Corbusier
“A house is a machine for living in.”
Le Corbusier
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and
magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into
space.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Less is more.”
Robert Venturi
“Less is a bore.”
Philip Johnson
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function.”
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
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
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
“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and
a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic
simplicity.”
Winston Churchill
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
Gustave Eiffel
“The first principle of architectural beauty is that the
essential lines of a construction be determined by a
perfect appropriateness to its use.”
Richard Meier
“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.”
Renzo Piano
“A museum is a place where one should lose one’s
head.”
Robert A.M. Stern
“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.”
Norman Foster
“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.”
Walter Gropius
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
Frank Gehry
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but
yearn for timelessness.”
Frank Gehry
“98% of what gets built today is shit.”
Oscar Niemeyer
“My work is not about 'form follows function’, but
'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows
feminine.”
Tadao Ando
“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.”
Daniel Libeskind
“Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and
the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder.”
Buckminster Fuller
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about
beauty.