1038 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi. Walter Gropius

Life Man Problem Light Space Air Minimum Able Develop He Without Limitations Due His Heat Dwelling Establishing Order Experiencing Place Required Fully Elementary Functions

Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time. Walter Gropius

Time You Experience Problems Degree Field Difficulties Others One Or Two Ability Able Some No-One He Part Taken Feels Know Himself Person Any Just Expert Public Fields Really Certain Certain Degree Display Each Two Appreciate

In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds. Walter Gropius

Great History Men Society Settling Minds Criterion Has-Been Adoption Purpose Exercises Polite Been Existence Repetition Same Same Things Influence Commonplace Standards Conscious Things

Garden as though you will live forever. William Kent

You Gardening Garden Will Live Though Forever

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest. Willis Polk

Before Architect Leading Southwest

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs. Willis Polk

Age Beauty Take Compelled

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Willis Polk

Logical Remember Will Long Gone Living Once Recorded Never Noble Diagram Itself Die After Asserting Thing Living Thing

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed. Willis Polk

City No Limit Limit Fixed Planning

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

Hope Architecture Will Tea Enjoy Something Container Much Basically

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials. Yoshio Taniguchi

Project Budget Am Materials Bigger Interested Using Now Ample Units

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. Zaha Hadid

Crazy You Remember Exhausted Sense Think Nights Unless Project Those Focused Kind Would Totally Architects Delirium Nobody Days Deadlines Doing Mean Why Row Four Sleep