“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” – Frank Gehry
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
“Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.” – Stephen Gardiner
“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.” – Julia Morgan
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.” – Daniel Libeskind
“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.” – Louis Kahn
“Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.” – Walter Gropius
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” – Zaha Hadid
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world, and this mediation takes place through the senses.” – Juhani Pallasmaa
“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” – Constantin Brâncuși
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space.” – Zaha Hadid
“Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“The details are not the details; they make the design.” – Charles Eames
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Winston Churchill
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again.” – Renzo Piano
“Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward-looking.” – Moshe Safdie
“I call architecture frozen music.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can’t see at least ten years ahead, don’t call him an architect.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.” – Louis Kahn
“Architecture is not an inspirational business; it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things.” – Harry Seidler
“All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” – Philip Johnson
“To create, one must first question everything.” – Eileen Gray
“God is in the details.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” – Ayn Rand
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” – Philip Johnson
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.” – Spiro Kostof
“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“An idea is salvation by imagination.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.” – Louis Kahn
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task, therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.” – Adolf Loos
“Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.” – Rem Koolhaas
“A building has at least two lives—the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward—and they are never the same.” – Rem Koolhaas
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“Every great architect is necessarily a great poet.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.” – Tadao Ando
“The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which people can live, work, and inspire.” – Santiago Calatrava
“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.” – Thomas Fuller
“Architecture is the learned game.” – Le Corbusier
“Architecture should be an expression of our time and environment.” – Arne Jacobsen
“Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche.” – Daniel Libeskind
“In pure architecture, the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.” – Augustus W. N. Pugin
“Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.” – Vitruvius
“Architecture is not simply a shelter, it is a process of shaping space.” – I.M. Pei
“Architecture is a way of thinking about the world.” – Peter Zumthor