Architecture Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

“Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and…

— Rowan Moore

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

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part…

— Harry Seidler

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 have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have…

— Luis Barragan

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

— Kenzo Tange

An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this…

— Louis Sullivan

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer