Quotes on Architecture

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

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Architecture is the work of nations

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

When does a building actually become a built?