Intl. Architect's Dictums

I believe in God, only I spell it nature

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture should speak of its time & place, but yearn for timelessness

Frank Gehry

The house is a machine for living in

Le Corbusier

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to 1?

Zaha Hadid

Architecture is an expression of values

Norman Foster

God is in the details

Ludwig Der Rohe

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things

Santiago Calatrava

Every building must have.. it's own soul

Louis Kahn

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction

Renzo Piano

All architects want to live beyond their deaths

Philip Johnson

Forms follow beauty

Oscar Niemeyer

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God

Antoni Gaudi

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life

Ioeh Ming Pei

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence

Eero Saarinen

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency

Remment Lucas Koolhaas

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Jean Nouvel

Everyone is born a genius but the process of living de-genuises them

Richard Fuller

A proper building grows naturally, logically, & poetically out of all its conditions

Louis Henry Sullivan

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche

César Pelli

Architecture begins where engineering ends

Walter Gropius