1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright

Too Earth Sun Buildings Children

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright

Funny Eyes TV Gum Chewing Chewing Gum

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You Together Architecture Carefully Starts Put Begins Bricks Two

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. Rem Koolhaas

Acceptance Lead Idealism Breakthroughs Realities Certain

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. Alvar Aalto

Fruit People Architecture Paradise Build Every Our Earthly House Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal Endeavour Create Should Product

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen

Art Architecture Building Becomes Then

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. Frank Lloyd Wright

Time Mind Will Become Analysis Synthesis Habit Enable Get Your

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Politics Government Freedom Democracy Man Free Rich Else Enslave Machine System Only Individual Individual Freedom Like Make Call Him America Expedient Just Poor Means

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright

Home Plant Physician First Mistakes Build Possible Architect Only Advise Client Buildings Go His As Far As Bury Far Should Vines

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

Game Architecture Light Correct Magnificent Learned Forms

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' Louis Kahn

You Think Too Say Says Arch Like Look Concrete Expensive Want Then Use Brick

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. Tadao Ando

Art Creative Creative Process Thinking Hand Process Extension

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. Christopher Alexander

Nature You World Build Isolation Says Must Web More Takes Merely Make Within Around Becomes Repair Cannot Place Which View Whole Fundamental Larger Thing Coherent

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright

You Believe Makes Always Happen Happens Really Belief Thing

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature Construction Walls Skin Say Consisting Carry Weight Buildings Concrete Noodles Nor Reinforced Bones

To fly we have to have resistance. Maya Lin

Fly Resistance

I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened. Walter Gropius

Life War Mind Meaning Of Life Rage Mad Nerves Through Shattered Am Sitting Any Which Meaning Meaning Of Chains Here

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. Zaha Hadid

Education Good People Job Important Way About Look Qualifications Educated Get Just Taught Being Good Education Need

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. Addison Mizner

People Met Knew Wrong Were Who Ever

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