Architecture Quote by Roy Lichtenstein

Architecture is not about form

— Peter Zumthor

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

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

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

— Zaha Hadid

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

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architectural-form equals social-form

— Eliel Saarinen

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

— Bill Watterson

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

— Le Corbusier

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

— Vittorio Gregotti

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson