We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill
Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. – Ayn Rand
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. – Frank Gehry
Less is more. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. – Philip Johnson
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people. – Richard Rogers
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. – Alvar Aalto
The higher the building the lower the morals. – Noel Coward
A house is a machine for living in. – Le Corbusier
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. – Louis Kahn
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. – Antonio Gaudi
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. – Yoshio Taniguchi
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. – Le Corbusier
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. – Tadao Ando
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. – Arthur Erickson
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. – Arthur Erickson
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn
