About Quote by Greg Lynn

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

— Claudio Silvestrin

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This…

— Peter Zumthor

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

— Roger Scruton

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

— Rem Koolhaas

“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely…

— Alain de Botton

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

— Ma Yansong

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just…

— Alain de Botton

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

— Alvar Aalto

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

— Luis Barragan

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how…

— Thom Mayne