Architecture Quote by Arthur Erickson

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

— Witold Rybczynski

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity…

— Shigeru Ban

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

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing…

— Bjarke Ingels

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

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

— Toyo Ito