Architecture Quotes

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

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

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture is invention.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.