Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to…

— Walter Gropius

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all…

— Santiago Calatrava

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

— Minoru Yamasaki

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral,…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is…

— David Adjaye