“I DON’T THINK THAT ARCHITECTURE IS ONLY ABOUT SHELTER…

IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXCITE YOU, TO CALM YOU, TO MAKE YOU

THINK.”
- ZAHA HADID

“It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in

each different place- that is the most important work and duty of the
architect to find out.
- LE CORBUSIER

“ARCHITECTURE IS NOT SO MUCH A KNOWLEDGE OF FORM, BUT A

FORM OF KNOWLEDGE.”
- BERNARD TSCHUMI

“OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE WAS THAT DESIGN IS NEITHER AN

INTELLECTUAL NOR A MATERIAL AFFAIR, BUT SIMPLY AN
INTEGRAL PART OF THE STUFF OF LIFE, NECESSARY FOR
EVERYONE IN A CIVILIZED SOCIETY.”
- WALTER GROPIUS

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the
past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
- NORMAN FOSTER

“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.”
- RICHARD MEIER
“EVERY DESIGN IS A RIGOROUS ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE A
CONCRETE MOMENT OF A TRANSITORY IMAGE IN ALL ITS
NUANCES. THE EXTENT TO WHICH THIS TRANSITORY QUALITY IS
CAPTURED, IS REFLECTED IN THE DESIGNS: THE MORE PRECISE
THEY ARE, THE MORE VULNERABLE.”
- ALVARO SIZA VIERA

“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated

problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the
possibilities to make good building art.”
- ALVAR AALTO

THERE IS STILL A REAL NEED FOR GOOD QUALITY

ARCHITECTURE, NOT PAPER ARCHITECTURE, BUT THE REAL
STUFF.”
- PETER ZUMTHOR