22 quotes
“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”
“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
“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
“Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals”
— Oscar Niemeyer
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again”
— Renzo Piano
“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 is inhabited sculpture”
— Constantin Brancusi
“The real core of my work is the way light enters a space”
— Peter Zumthor
“Good architecture lets nature in”
— Marcel Breuer
“Less is only more where more is no good”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own”
“As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown”
— Norman Foster
“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper”
— Alvar Aalto
“My goal is to erase architecture and make buildings that melt into the landscape”
— Kengo Kuma
“My goal is to erase architecture”
“Architecture is frozen music.”
— Schelling
“Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness”
— Frank Gehry
“I dont think that architecture is only about shelter but also about the pleasure of discovery”
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