To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Daniel
Libeskind
Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it
is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. Louis Kahn
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
- Emilio Ambasz
Form ever follows function. Louis Henry Sullivan
A museum is a place where one should lose ones head. Renzo Piano
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest. John M.
Johansen
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the
future. Tadao Ando
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
Renzo Piano
To create, one must first question everything. Eileen Gray
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the
teacup, but the tea. Yoshio Taniguchi
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. Luis Barragn
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. John Ruskin
Less is more. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
When Im working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when Ive finished, if the
solution is not beautiful I know its wrong. Buckminster Fuller
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is
essentially unknown. Norman Foster

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. Its based on
wonder. Daniel Libeskind
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? Philip Johnson
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular, to look like it is changing the
world. I dont care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the
people who use it. David Chipperfield
Each new situation requires a new architecture. - Jean Nouvel
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. Peter Eisenman
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Ernest Hemingway
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them
worse. Ralph Erskine
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space On
the one hand its about shelter, but its also about pleasure. Zaha Hadid
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful
catastrophe. Le Corbusier
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? Zaha Hadid
I dont divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis Barragn
I dont know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. Frank Gehry
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a
man is really an architect. Eero Saarinen

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an
ineffable immaterial quality. Toyo Ito
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. Glenn Murcutt
Architecture is not about space but about time. Vito Acconci
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
Renzo Piano
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about
life. Theyre thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity
and making it work. - Tom Kundig
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the
mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the
tangible with the intangible. Richard Meier
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked
structure, the spirit of the thing. Tadao Ando
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own
civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and Im content. Cecil Balmond
I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. Neri Oxman
Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. Kenzo Tange
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Mies van der Rohe
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those
sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. Louis Kahn
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. Buckminster Fuller
I always try to think in curves. Greg Lynn
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange
Question everything generally thought to be obvious. Dieter Rams

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when,
they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs
My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form
follows feminine. Oscar Niemeyer
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant but
minimalism. Kevin McCloud
Buildings should be good neighbours. Paul Thiry
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill