“Creating Architecture that is both

modern and undeniably Filipino.”

― Leandro Locsin

“Architecture must respond to local

conditions.”

“I design Filipino”

“Architecture must be true to itself, its

land, and its people.

““Three factors make architecture

truly Filipino, Filipino
values, Philippine climate and the use
of indigenous materials”

― Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa

“The structure should not only look

good but must also be made well.”

― Carlos Santos Viola

“The structure must be well oriented.”

― Caesar Homero Concio

“Buildings should be planned with austerity

in mind and its stability forever as the aim of
true architecture, that buildings must be
progressive, simple in design but dignified,
true to a purpose without resorting to an
applied set of aesthetics and should eternally
recreate truth."

“A truly great work of architecture must

express harmony, simplicity, organic beauty,
natural integrity, and beauty.”

― Pablo Antonio

“A Pragmatic Approach to
Architecture”

― Gilbert Yu
 “Make big plans; aim high in hope and
work, remembering that a noble logical
diagram once recorded will not die.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic

to stir men's blood”

― Daniel Burnham

“Art and Architecture, the new unity”

― Walter Gropius

“I believe that architecture is a

pragmatic art. To become art it must be
built on a foundation of necessity.”

― I. M Pei
“Everyone used to want to be star
architects. That’s no longer the
case.”

― Shigeru Ban

“I’ve said goodbye to the

overworked notion that architecture
has to saved the world”

“Buildings can have a beautiful

silence.”

― Peter Zumthor

“Drawing architecture is a
schizoid act: it involves reducing
the world to a piece of paper.”

― Eduardo Suoto de Moura

 “Architecture should speak of its time
and place, but yearn for
timelessness.”

― Frank Gehry

“We are called to be architects of the

future, not its victims.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

“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.”

“Architecture is the reaching out for the

truth.”

― Louis Kahn
“Color in certain places has the great
value of making the outlines and
structural planes seem more energetic.”

“Those who look for the laws of Nature

as a support for their new works
collaborate with the creator.”

― Antonio Gaudi

“Architecture is the learned game,

correct and magnificent, of forms
assembled in the light.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”

― Le Corbusier

“Architecture is basically a container

of something. I hope they will enjoy
not so much the teacup, but the tea.”

― Yoshio Taniguchi
 “Architecture is the will of an epoch
translated into space.”

“Less is more”

“Architecture starts when you

carefully put two bricks together.
There it begins.”

― Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but

an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines.”
“Organic architecture seeks
superior sense of use and a finer
sense of comfort, expressed in
organic simplicity.”

― Frank Lloyd Wright

“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
“Cities are the greatest creations
of humanity.”

“To provide meaningful

architecture is not to parody
history but to articulate it.”

― Daniel Libeskind

“Form follows profit is the

aesthetic principle of our
times.”

― Richard Rogers

“Form follows function.”

― Louis Sullivan
 “Nothing requires the architect's
care more than the due proportions
of buildings.”

― Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Architects have made architecture

too complex. We need to simplify it
and use a language that everyone
can understand.”

― Toyo Ito

“Architecture is invention.”

― Oscar Niemeyer
“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

“Architecture is how the person

places herself in the space. Fashion
is about how you place the object
on the person.”

― Zaha Hadid

“Each new situation requires a

new architecture.”

― Jean Nouvel
 “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

“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.”

― Jørn Utzon

“I may not be the most

interesting architect, but I’m still
out there and have maintained
some position of integrity.”

― David Chipperfield
“Each material has its own
shadow. The shadow of stone is
not the same as that of a brittle
autumn leaf. The shadow
penetrates the material and
radiates its message. “

― Sverre Fern

“The life of an Architect is one

of fight: fight against the
ugliness.”

― Massimo Vignelli

“When an architect is asked

what his best building is, he
usually answers, “The next
one.”

― Emilio Ambas
 “I tell my students: you must
put into your work first
effort, second love, and third
suffering.”

― Glenn Murcutt

“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 very close.”

― Jacques Herzog

“One of the great beauties

of architecture is that each
time, it is like life starting
all over again.”

― Renzo Piano
“I don't believe in morality in
architecture.”

“In any architecture, there is an

equity between the pragmatic
function and the symbolic
function.”

― Michael Graves

“Architects in the past have tended

to concentrate their attention on 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

“My buildings will be my legacy...

they will speak for me long after I'm
gone.”

“Architecture is a visual art, and the

buildings speak for themselves.”

― Julia Morgan
 “As architects we are often involved
in the concrete-steel-and-glass
aspect of it, but cities are social
structures, and to be involved in
imagining the future of cities and the
type of relationships and the types of
places that we're making is
something that intrigues me very
much.”

― Michael Arad

“Architecture arouses sentiments in

man. The architect's task therefore, is
to make those sentiments more
precise.”

“The work of art shows people new

directions and thinks of the future.
The house thinks of the present”.

― Adolf Loos

“Proportions are what makes the

old Greek temples classic in their
beauty. They are like huge blocks,
from which the air has been literally
hewn out between the columns.”

― Arne Jacobsen
“All architecture is shelter, all
great architecture is the design of
space that contains, cuddles,
exalts, or stimulates the persons
in that space.”

― Philip Johnson

“Space has always been the spiritual

dimension of architecture. It is not the
physical statement of the structure so
much as what it contains that moves
us.”

― Arthur Erickson

“Architecture is not an
inspirational business, it's a
rational procedure to do sensible
and hopefully beautiful things;
that's all.”

― Harry Seidler
 “People can inhabit anything. And
they can be miserable in anything
and ecstatic in anything. More and
more I think that architecture has
nothing to do with it. Of course,
that's both liberating and
alarming.”

― Rem Koolhaas

“Architecture is an art when one

consciously or unconsciously
creates aesthetic emotion in the
atmosphere and when this
environment produces well-
being.”

― Luis Barragan