architecture Quotes

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.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

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.

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

A house is a machine for living in.