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.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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 the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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 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.
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.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
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