3 December 2020 Minoru Yamasaki We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
3 December 2020 Arne Jacobsen Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life.
3 December 2020 Richard Rogers 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.
3 December 2020 Antonio Gaudi Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
3 December 2020 Arne Jacobsen If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.
3 December 2020 Robert Palmer Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it’s really difficult.
3 December 2020 Ernest Dimnet Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
3 December 2020 Joel Coen The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it’s a true story.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
3 December 2020 Michael Graves In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
3 December 2020 Alexander Jackson Davis I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
3 December 2020 George Lamming The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
3 December 2020 Saul Steinberg The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
3 December 2020 Frank Gehry Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
3 December 2020 Harry Seidler Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that’s all.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
3 December 2020 William Devane I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
3 December 2020 Daniel Libeskind To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
3 December 2020 Richard Rogers Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
