Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
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.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
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