Architecture quotes

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

What people want, above all, is order.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.