INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM FAMOUS ARCHITECTS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM FAMOUS ARCHITECTS

• A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.
 -Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
• God is in the details
. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Less is more.
 -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
• Form follows function that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. 
-Frank Lloyd Wright
• It’s very atmospheric. It’s not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
 -Santiago Calatrava
• Architecture is the work of nations.
 -John Ruskin
• There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
. -Dan Rice
• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul
. -Ernest Dimnet
• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
 -Walter Gropius
• I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. -
Spiro Kostof
• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
 -Philip Johnson
• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
 -Laurie Anderson
• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
 -Philip Johnson
• Architecture begins where engineering ends.
 -Walter Gropius
• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
 -Walter Gropius
• Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.
 -Louis Henri Sullivan