1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

Nature You Architecture Light Become Enrich Churches Flying Details Carving Simplest Cathedrals Because Very Stone Northern Form Little Much Help Europe Desert Necessary Need

A man can do all things if he but wills them. Leon Battista Alberti

Man Wills All Things He Them Things

What does a house want to be? Louis Kahn

House Does Want

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You Together Architecture Carefully Begins Place Bricks Two

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Achievement Single Circumstance Significance Temples Entire Seem Architectural Structures Cathedrals Makes Times Antique Roman Middle Middle Ages Personalities Us Ages Creations Full Works Even Earlier

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Art Time Quality Architecture Problem Nothing Cost Fact Through Proportions Throughout Almost Most Reached Always Been Question Authentic Same In Fact Them Themselves Among Things

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The idea of service leads to community. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Service Community Idea Leads

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

Architecture Cold Emotional Piece House Refuge Convenience

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis Barragan

Me Gardening Architecture Divide Landscape

I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago. Ma Yansong

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. Mario Botta

Man Architecture Church Sacred Idea Which Fundamental Need

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