Architecture Quote by Shigeru Ban

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

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

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

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada

Architecture is invention.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

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 not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody,…

— Anonymous

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright