Architecture Design Quotes

Home is where you hang your head.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

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 models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.