We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. – Alvar Aalto
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. – Daniel Burnham
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. – Daniel Libeskind
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers
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. – David Allan Coe
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? – Philip Johnson
A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive. – Helmut Jahn
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. – Helmut Jahn
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. – Thomas a Kempis
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. – Julia Morgan
What people want, above all, is order. – Stephen Gardiner
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. – Tadao Ando
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. – Arne Jacobsen
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. – Rem Koolhaas
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. – Daniel Libeskind
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. – Michael Ende
If I have a style, I am not aware of it. – Michael Graves
Form follows function. – Louis Sullivan
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. – Adolf Loos
