Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Copy Share Image
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest. — John Mercer Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong. — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use. — Bruno Munari Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over… — Carrie Fulton Phillips Copy Share Image
In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to… — Richard Neutra Copy Share Image
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability… — Mark Wigley Copy Share Image
I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
