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