Arches Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more…

— Viktor E. Frankl

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In his seminal book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the psychiatrist Victor Frankl described the essence of what has come to be known as an…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

— Alvar Aalto

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

We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the…

— Elizabeth Diller

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

— Ma Yansong

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle…

— Cameron Sinclair

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil…

— Frank Stella

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

— Anonymous

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the…

— Anonymous

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

— Adolf Loos