Appropriateness Quote by Gustave Eiffel

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia,…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

— Rem Koolhaas

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right…

— Martin Filler

“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

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking…

— Greg Lynn

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a…

— Kenzo Tange

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

— Adolf Loos

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