Answers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Roger Scruton

“It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on…

— Alain de Botton

“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

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

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

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

— Claudio Silvestrin

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

“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

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light…

— Le Corbusier

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer