Quotes from famous architects
Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in.
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Space is the breath of art.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.
My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine".
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work.
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?
I.M. Pei
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones...
Great artists need great clients. ...
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. ...
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.
Bjarke Ingels
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.