Quotes on Architecture Design

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

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

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.