Architect Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,

— Eero Saarinen

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

— Minoru Yamasaki

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

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to…

— Mario Botta

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

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 greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired…

— Victor Hugo

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

— Juhani Pallasmaa