All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. -Ernest Dimnet
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.-David Allan Coe
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.-Frank Gehry
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.-Julia Morgan
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.-R. Buckminster Fuller
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.-Philip Johnson
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.-Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.-Yoshio Taniguchi
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.-Louis Kahn
Each new situation requires a new architecture.-Jean Nouvel
Form follows function.-Louis Sullivan
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.-John Portman
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.-Daniel Libeskind
Less is more.-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.-Luis Barragan
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.-Frank Lloyd Wright
Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.-John Osborne
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.-Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture begins where engineering ends.-Walter Gropius
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.-Maya Lin
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.-Arthur Erickson
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.-Daniel Burnham
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.-Rem Koolhaas
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.-Tadao Ando
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.-Toyo Ito
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.-Le Corbusier
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.-Philip Johnson
The building’s identity resided in the ornament.-Louis Sullivan
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.-Harry Seidler
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.-Constantin Brancusi
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.-Bruce Jackson
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.-Tadao Ando
I call architecture frozen music.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Architecture is invention.-Oscar Niemeyer
Whatever good things we build end up building us.-Jim Rohn
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.-John Ruskin
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.-Luis Barragan
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.-Adolf Loos
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.-Louis Kahn
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.-Helmut Jahn
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.-Alvar Aalto
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.-Frank Lloyd Wright
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.-Donna Karan
My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.-Julia Morgan
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.-Richard Rogers
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.-Thomas a Kempis
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.-Arthur Erickson
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!-T. E. Lawrence
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.-Thomas Fuller
I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.-Ayn Rand
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.-John Portman
Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.-Vitruvius
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.-Guillaume Apollinaire