Architect Quote by Adolf Loos

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how…

— Thom Mayne

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part…

— Harry Seidler

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

— Luis Barragan

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make…

— Frank Gehry

The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those,…

— Jean Nouvel

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

— Minoru Yamasaki

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But…

— Arne Jacobsen