Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry 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
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano 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
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
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
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
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
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
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed… — Chris Bangle 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
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
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
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 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
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
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo 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
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest. — John Mercer Johnson Copy Share Image
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
