architects
Le Corbusier: A house is a machine for living
Louis kahn: “Architecture is thoughtful making of space.”
Walter Gropius: Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
Auguste Perret: “Construction is neither the architecture's tongue; the architect is a poet who thinks and speaks construction.”
Julia Morgan: “Architecture is visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: “We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.”
Louis Sullivan: form follows function
Jacques derrida: When we deconstruct anything, we simply do not destroy, dissolve or cancel the legitimacy of what we will be constructing".
Daniel Libeskind: “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”
Frank Gehry: "Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness
Charles Eames: "The details are not the details. They make the design.”
Zaha Hadid: “There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”
Philip Johnson: “Architecture is art, nothing else.”
Massimo Vignelli: “if you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
frank Loyd wright: "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature
Daniel burnham : Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Robert Venturi: “less is bore.”
Oscar Niemeyer: “My work is not about ‘form follows function’ but ‘form follows Beauty’ or even better ‘form follows feminine.’”
Stephen Gardiner: “It was only from an inner calm man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.”
Antoni Gaudí: “nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”
Eero Saarinen: “Function influence but does not dictate form.”
Buckminster fuller: “you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, else build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Richard Rogers: “Architeture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.”
Peter Eisenman: “The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comfort us.”
Norman Foster: “As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
Tadao Ando: “I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind.”
Vito Acconci: “Architecture is not about space but about time.”
Arthur Erickson: “Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
Bjarke Ingels: “Architecture is about trying to make the world a little bit more like our dreams.”
John Portman: “Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.”
Ralph Erskine: “The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
Glenn Murcutt: “Architecture is not created, it is discovered—the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend it.”
Art Gensler: “the building block of all luck is curiosity.”
IM Pei: “Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.”
David Chipperfield: “The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it”
Jean Nouvel: “Each new situation requires a new architecture.”
Denise Scott Brown: “Architects can’t force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers and make the meeting places useful and attractive.”
Juhani Pallasmaa: “The door handle is the handshake of the building.”
Santiago Calatrava: “The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that i have done something beautiful to the community.”
Kenzo Tange: “Design of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.”
Chitra Vishwanath: “Future of architecture lies in it being ecologically sensitive wherein it incorporates water, waste, energy, biodiversity, food and resources to build with.”
Rem Koolhaas: “The unbuilt is the fantasy that underlines everything.”
Michael Graves: “I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
Alvar Aalto: “I do not write, I build.”
Augustus Pugin: “In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.”
Jeanne Gang:, “The space you create has the ability to shape human experience, influence mood, and guide the flow of life within it.”
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: “The design of a building must first and foremost be functional; it must not only look good but also work well.”
Mark Wigley:” Architecture never derived its force from the stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.”
Yoshio Taniguchi: “Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
Peter Behrens: “Design is not about decorating functional form. It is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advance.”
Adolf Loos: “Architecture arous
es sentiments in man. The architect’s task, therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”