Architecture design Quotes

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

— El Lissitzky

Home is where you hang your hangover.

— James Crumley

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

— Louis Kahn

Home is where you hang your architect.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

— Frank Gehry

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

— John Ruskin

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

— Ettore Sottsass

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

— John Mercer Johnson

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

— Michelangelo

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

— Daniel Libeskind

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of…

— Tadao Ando

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

— Kevin McCloud

“                •   Initiation, business requirements, architecture and design,”

— William Dow

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

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with…

— Oscar Niemeyer

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care…

— David Chipperfield

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple…

— Oskar Schlemmer

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

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

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

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

I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in…

— Massimo Vignelli

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

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

The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these…

— Dror Benshetrit

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

— Renzo Piano

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

— Frank Lloyd Wright

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

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

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability…

— Mark Wigley

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and…

— Oscar Niemeyer

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space…

— Mario Botta