Architecture Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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 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

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

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

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

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions…

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

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