1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. Adolf Loos

People Money Law Gesture Secret Secure Must Threatening Toward Looked Well Courts Bank Vice After Declare Your Appear Here Honest Honest People

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. Adolf Loos

Work Art People World State Everyone Draw Out Responsible Brought House Comfort Without None Being Wants Requirement Satisfies Need

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. Adolf Loos

Work Art Conservative House Comfort Revolutionary Serve

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. Adolf Loos

Truth Lie Old Stronger Building Walks Changes Otherwise Side Our Hundreds Way Hundreds Of Years Stay Only Permitted Traditional Years Traditional Way Than Improvement Us Even Inner Bond

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Alexander Jackson Davis

Architecture Living Architect Most Buildings American Any Designed

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto

Culture Architecture Civilization Belongs

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature. Alvar Aalto

Nature Must Content Linked Form

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street. Alvar Aalto

Work Good Man Human Being Simple Suited Harmony Human Being Which Little Organically Little Man Should Street Things

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture. Alvar Aalto

Daily Culture Harmony Smallest Chore Even

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. Alvar Aalto

Journey Every Buildings Italian Begins

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. Alvar Aalto

Best Nature World Result Herself Possible Never Mainly Smallest Combinations Occurs Encounters Committee Cells Which Flexible Connection Units Millions

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. Alvar Aalto

Architecture National Local Earth Merely Clearly Ties Rooted

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. Annabelle Selldorf

Success You Architecture Building Solid See Superficial About More Well Always Authenticity Than Precision Place Much Aging Reasoning Suggesting

There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white. Annabelle Selldorf

Love Example Subscribe White Thinking Mine About Given Color Had For Example Most House Material Context Sounds Go Did Any Often Depends Marble Exquisite Applications Ostentatious

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. Annabelle Selldorf

I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things. Annabelle Selldorf

All clients think that they are architects. Annabelle Selldorf

Think Architects Clients

I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it? How can you convey its character? Annabelle Selldorf

Character You People Problem Speak Space Think Projects Located Circumstances About Tend Attack Through Narrative Always How Being Where Moving Convey Asked Create Even Residential

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality. Annabelle Selldorf

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