Architecture Quote by Timothy Levitch

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

— Paul Goldberger

“Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and…

— Rowan Moore

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit…

— I. M. Pei

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one…

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

— Edwin Arnold

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

— Louis Kahn

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

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing…

— Rem Koolhaas

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

— Luis Barragan