“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Quotes about architecture
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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
“Less is more.”
“I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.”
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The higher the building the lower the morals.”
“A house is a machine for living in.”
“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.”
“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”
“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.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”
“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.”
“Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.”
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”
“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.”
“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.”