Architecture Quote by Luis Barragan

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

— Luis Barragan

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

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one…

— Ma Yansong

“Let us summarize these three points more concisely: (a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair. (b) “Objective” work,…

— El Lissitzky

“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

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

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

“architecture is a way of life”

— Barwa

“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected…

— Alain de Botton

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

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter,…

— Zaha Hadid

“I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits