Architecture Quotes

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Less is more.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

I call architecture frozen music.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

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.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Form follows function.