Architecture quotes

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A house is a machine for living in.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

Less is more.

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

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.