Built Quote by Christopher Alexander

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

— Frank Gehry

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

— Francis Bacon

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

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

“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements…

— Alain de Botton

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right…

— Martin Filler

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

— Oscar Wilde

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe