Architecture Quote by Alain de Botton

“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being”

— Luis Barragan

“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely…

— Alain de Botton

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking…

— Greg Lynn

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Luis Barragan

“… architects are not acting for themselves but on behalf of others, and this means acting ethically. It is to ethics that we now turn.”

— Jeremy Till

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

— Rem Koolhaas

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of…

— Samuel Mockbee