Abandoned Quote by Carl Sagan

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its…

— Andrew S. Draper

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

— Louis Kahn

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

— George Lamming

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in…

— Honore de Balzac

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations:…

— Philip Johnson

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are…

— Santiago Calatrava