22 quotes
“Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals”
— Oscar Niemeyer
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that it is full of wonder”
— Freeman Dyson
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again”
— Renzo Piano
“Architecture is frozen music.”
— Schelling
“I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own”
— Peter Zumthor
“Less is only more where more is no good”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness”
— Frank Gehry
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper”
— Alvar Aalto
“As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown”
— Norman Foster
“The real core of my work is the way light enters a space”
“My goal is to erase architecture”
— Kengo Kuma
“Good architecture lets nature in”
— Marcel Breuer
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture”
— Constantin Brancusi
“In my designs I try to achieve simplicity by exploiting natural light and the beauty of materials”
— Tadao Ando
“In all my works light is an important controlling factor”
“Where there is nothing everything is possible where there is architecture nothing else is possible”
— Rem Koolhaas
“Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart”
— Kenzo Tange
“I dont think that architecture is only about shelter but also about the pleasure of discovery”
— Zaha Hadid
“I dont think that architecture is only about shelter about a very simple enclosure it should be able to excite you to calm you to make you think”
“My goal is to erase architecture and make buildings that melt into the landscape”
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