Architect Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

“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 first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

— Gustave Eiffel

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

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

— Karim Rashid

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

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

— Roger Scruton

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

— Adolf Loos

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

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

— Minoru Yamasaki