Architecture Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

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 depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

— Arne Jacobsen

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and…

— Christopher Alexander

A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into…

— Christopher Plummer