Architect Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was…

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Minoru Yamasaki

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry…

— Robert Rauschenberg

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work…

— Jean Nouvel

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

The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to…

— Luca Pacioli

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

— Blaise Pascal