Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.
~ Owen Hatherley
The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.
~ Tom Mcdonough
On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.
~ Ross Macdonald
We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the future: is he not already building churches? I do not know what this individual -- ugly of countenance and hideous in his conceptions of the world -- is repressing to make him want thus to crush humanity under ignoble heaps of reinforced concrete, a noble material that ought to permit an aerial articulation of space superior to Flamboyant Gothic. His power of cretinization is vast. A model by Corbusier is the only image that brings to my mind the idea of immediate suicide. With him moreover any remaining job will fade. And love -- passion -- liberty.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
~ Vincent Scully
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?
~ Charles
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.
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
~ Robert A. M. Stern
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.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
~ Le Corbusier
Buildings should be good neighbours.
~ Paul Thiry
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
~ Arthur Erickson
A building is a string of events belonging together.
~ Chris Fawcett
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
~ Tao Ho
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
~ Kisho Kurokawa
I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
~ Claes Oldenberg
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
~ Alan Kay
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
~ Mies Van Der Rohe
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
~ Louis H. Sullivan
Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
~ Thomas Fuller
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~ John Ruskin
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
~ Constantin Brancusi
The flowering of geometry.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
~ Walter Gropius
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
An arch never sleeps.
~ Hindu Proverb
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
~ Ralph Rapson
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
~ Lao Tzu
Good architecture lets nature in.
~ Mario Pei
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
~ Leonard Baskin
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
~ Harwell Hamilton Harris
Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
~ Etienne Gaboury
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
~ Eero Saarinen
In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence the top and the elevator cab.
~ Chao-Ming Wu
A house is a machine for living.
~ Buckminster Fuller
