Architecture Quote by Alain de Botton

“It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on…

— Alain de Botton

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just…

— Alain de Botton

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

“It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on…

— 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

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

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This…

— Peter Zumthor

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

— Ma Yansong

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

— Louis Kahn

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

— Rem Koolhaas

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“...Because beauty is typically the result of a few qualities working in concert, it can take more to guarantee the appeal of a bridge…

— Alain de Botton