279 private quotes tagged architecture

“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.” — Alvar Aalto

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“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.” — Adolf Loos

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“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” — Daniel Libeskind

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“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.” — Martha Graham

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“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.” — Alvar Aalto

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“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.” — Louis Kahn

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“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.” — Richard Rogers

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“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.” — Maya Lin

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“Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.” — Harry Seidler

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“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson

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“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” — John Ruskin

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

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“The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“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.” — Arthur Erickson

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“I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.” — Luis Barragan

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“What people want, above all, is order.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.” — Tadao Ando

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“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.” — Marcus V. Pollio

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“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.” — Arne Jacobsen

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“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.” — Rem Koolhaas

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“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.” — Daniel Libeskind

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“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.” — Tadao Ando

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