“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
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth." - Louis Kahn
"To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be." - Le Corbusier
"Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." - Frank Gehry
"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things... ...but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street." - Alvar Aalto
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." - Le Corbusier
Here are some Architectural Quotes; Enjoy:
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) British clergyman and author
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65) Roman philosopher and playwright.
Form ever follows function.
Louis Henry Sullivan (1856-1924) U.S. architect.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) American architect.
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) American painter who was a founder and foremost pr
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) French poet, writer and art critic.
