Architecture Quote by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.

— Marcel Breuer

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

— Arthur Erickson

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

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we…

— Rafael Moneo

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman

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 purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

— El Lissitzky

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

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

— Gustave Eiffel

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

— Vittorio Gregotti

Architecture is an expression of values.

— Norman Foster