Architecture Quote by Peter Zumthor

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture…

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that,…

— Tadao Ando

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the…

— Neri Oxman

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry.…

— James Polshek

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

— Philip Johnson