Top 101 Exceptionally Badass

Quotes About Architecture and

Design From Legends

Steff Green

Dec 3, 2013

St. Peter's Basilica

It's impossible to go through a single day without encountering architecture. The built
environment is entwined with every facet of our lives – from our work to our homes to
our hobbies and social lives.

Architecture inspires people to think, so it's no wonder that so many famous writers,
artists, politicians and designers have such profound and fascinating observations about
architecture. Whether you embrace minimalism or adore flamboyance, everyone has
experiences and tastes that shape the way they interact with the built world.

If you're involved in architecture or design, I hope these 101 quotes will delight,
encourage, enrage and inspire.

1. The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly
ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the
days of your life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

2. A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

- Brenda Laurel
3. Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
- Rern Koolhaas

4. Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that

they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my
own living room carpet, I suppose.
- Chris Bangle

5. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a

habit.
- Aristotle

Bust of Aristotle
6. The life of a designer is one of fight: fight against the ugliness.
- Massimo Vignelli

7. 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

8. The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian

condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves
mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic
expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the
architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

9. Less is a bore.
- Robert Venturi
10. Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the
complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art
of design is to make complicated things simple.
- Tim Parsey

Tim Parsey
11. One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like
life starting all over again.
- Renzo Piano

12. Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

- Brian Reed

13. To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to

articulate it.
- Daniel Libeskind

14. Practice safe design: Use a concept.

- Petrula Vrontikis

15. Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making
cities that provide better for people.
- Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl
16. People ignore design that ignores people.
- Frank Chimero
17. In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by
extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.
- Nancy Banks-Smith

18. I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to

design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that
kind of client so far.
- Fumihiko Maki

19. The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is
made.
- Louis Kahn

20. Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots
because the idea wasn't theirs.
- Frank Chimero

Frank Chimero
21. All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

22. Design should never say, "Look at me!" It should always say,
"Look at this!"
- David Craib

23. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that
is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

24. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.
- Albert Einstein

25. Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

- Mies van de Rohe

Mies Van Der Dohe

26. Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
- Joe Sparano

27. Good architecture is like a good therapy session, a good marriage,

a good poem - gently and almost invisibly allowing you to be you, as
flawed and as beautiful as you are.
- Robert Sullivan

28. In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or

serve a purpose.
- Augustus W. N. Pugin

29. I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven

at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!
- Richard Neutra

30. The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard

option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
- Marty Neumeier

Marty Neumeier
31. Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but
rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of
stability slipped.
- Mark Wigley

32. I've noticed the computer sometimes leads to rather bland

decision-making; Now, anybody can do a wobbly, blobby building.
- Peter Cook

33. For me, design is like choosing what I'm going to wear for the day
– only much more complicated and not really the same at all.
- Robynne Raye

34. 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

35. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright.

36. Give them the vision of Oz, show them the direction, convince
them you can create the yellow brick road; the rest is civil engineering.
- Dirk Susharme

37. Design is where science and art break even.

- Mieke Gerritzen
38. Hell, there are no rules here; We're trying to accomplish
something.
- Thomas Edison

39. A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the

architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better
human being.
- Juhani Pallasmaa

40. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

- Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson
41. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
- Ayn Rand

42. A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

- Bruno Munari

43. People who build their own home tend to be very courageous.
These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it
means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and
making it work.
- Tom Kundig

44. Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for
timelessness.
- Frank Gehry

45. Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.

- Noreen Morioka

Noreen Morioka
46. Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
- Thomas Fuller

47. We live in a time of renaissance … cities are coming back to life,

after a long neglect.
- Daniel Libeskind

48. Ah, to build, to build!

That is the noblest art of all the arts.
Painting and sculpture are but images,
Are merely shadows cast by outward things
On stone or canvas, having in themselves
No separate existence. Architecture,
Existing in itself, and not in seeming
A something it is not, surpasses them
As substance shadow.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

49. Architecture is a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms

assembled in the light.
- Le Corbusier

50. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task,

therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
- Adolf Loos
51. The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human
psyche.
- César Pelli

52. I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far
less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and
nothing to be nostalgic about.
- Carrie Phillips

53. Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements
of the soil. It's based on wonder.
- Daniel Libeskind

54. An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent

with its use.
- Bruno Munari

55. Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to

feel good in a space … On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also
about pleasure.
- Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid
56. Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their
own interest.
- John M. Johnson

57. Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

- Fabien Barral
58. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian
flamboyant, but minimalism.
- Kevin McCloud

59. We shape our buildings: therefore they shape us.

- Winston Churchill

60. Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you
can fight against gravity.
- Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano
61. When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But
when I'm finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it's wrong.
- Buckminster Fuller

62. I call architecture frozen music.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

63. Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a

mistake.
- Luis Barragán

64. All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps

architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

65. Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft
of your money.
- Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
66. A camel is a horse designed by committee.
- Sir Alec Issigonis

67. People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not
about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts.
Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology,
cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that
the world didn't know it was missing.
- Paola Antonelli

68. Home is where you hang your architect.

- Chare Booth Luce

69. Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will

enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
- Yoshio Taniguchi

70. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

- Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
71. I find modernist design boring, but it's so much faster!
- Christine Suewon Lee

72. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and

even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-
Good rather than the God of Being-Good.
- Richard Saul Wurman
73. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down
our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than
rubble. We did that.
Charles, Prince of Wales

74. When we build, let us think that we build forever.

- John Ruskin

75. As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of

the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
- Normon Foster

Normon Foster
76. I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to
do.
- Frank Gehry

77. There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to

look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it
means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.
- David Chipperfield

78. Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I

created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of
the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make
this unjust world a better place in which to live.
- Oscar Niemeyer

79. The room is there for the human being – not the human being for
the room.
- El Lissitzky
80. In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become
pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life’s
necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.
- Oskar Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer
81. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

82. The events of human life, whether public or private, are so

intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct
nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of
their monuments or from their domestic relics.
- Honore de Balzac

83. Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

- Constantin Brancusi

84. The architect's role is to make the mythic real.

- Sotirios Kotoulas

85. We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

- Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson
86. Form ever follows function.
- Louis H. Sullivan
87. Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials,
methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is
at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social
world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes
touch upon when we use the word order.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

88. Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In
every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
- Arthur Erickson

89. Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It

can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it,
but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
- Maya Lin

90. The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other

words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside.
This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of
limiting space. It’s a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this
point of view, all architecture is sacred.
- Mario Botta

Mario Botta
91. Architecture is the plant fertilizer of our lives; it is the way to be a
big, great-tasting tomato.
- Robert Sullivan

92. Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly,
but the most surely, on the soul.
- Ernest Dimnet
93. It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are
derived from the limbs of man.
- Michelangelo

94. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with
politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large
projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works.
Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
- Ai Weiwei

95. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the
construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
- David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe

96. The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

97. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings.

That's art to me.
- Maya Lin

98. All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of

space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that
space.
- Philip Johnson

99. Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are
part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil
into the architecture, or it isn't real.
- Frank Stella
100. Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly,
but the most surely, on the soul.
- Ernest Dimnet

101. Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the
moon.
- Bruno Zevi

August 7, 2015

Design impacts all our lives in ways subtle and overt. From our phones to our
coffee pots, every object is a function of design.

Great design is more than just good aesthetics. It is the way we use objects. An
iPad or an Eames chair are beautiful by themselves, but you can’t truly
appreciate their design until you start using them. It’s only then that you
experience all the subtle touches, all the things visible and invisible that make
great design.

But where do these great designs come from? How do designers create objects
that are both beautiful and useful? From where do they draw their
inspiration? Do they follow any rules, or do they follow their fancy?

We’ll find out the answers in this roundup of the 10 best design philosophies
of all time.

1. Function over form

Dieter Rams inspired a generation of designers, including Jon Ive, with his
philosophy of making a product useful, above all else. Under his reign, no
product passed through the Braun assembly line without an intense focus on
function over form.
“My aim is to omit everything superfluous so that the
essential is shown to the best possible advantage.” –
Dieter Rams
As it turns out, stripping an object of all pretensions of function makes it all
the more aesthetically appealing. In fact, Rams usability-over-aesthetics
philosophy actually birthed the modern minimalist design movement.

2. Empathy and focus

A lot of Apple’s current design prowess can be traced back to the foundation
laid by Mike Markkula. Markkula was not a designer — he was a marketer
(and also the second CEO of Apple). But perhaps unknowingly, Markkula
ended up formulating the core philosophies that guide Apple design to this
very day: empathy with the user and focus in all endeavors.

Markkula wrote about these two philosophies in a landmark, one page memo
titled “The Apple Marketing Philosophy”. In this memo, he remarked that
Apple “will truly understand their (customers) needs better than any other
company” and “eliminate all unimportant opportunities.”

Considering how Apple’s product design is still obsessed with making only a
handful of things perfect,it wouldn’t be wrong to say that this is one of the
most influential design philosophies of all time.

3. Aiming for ‘WOW’

Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who made some of the world’s
most recognizable logos and graphic art, once said:

“There are three responses to a piece of design — yes, no and WOW! Wow is
the one to aim for.”

The “wow” is shorthand for a powerful, visceral reaction to visual images. Aim
for wow, and everything else will fall into place.

4. ‘Form and function are one’

Frank Lloyd Wright coined the phrase “form and function are one” and spent
his life creating organic designs. This was a decidedly post-modern approach
to design –instead of focusing on form (like most contemporary designers),
Wright focused on creating integrated designs that flowed easily into the
surrounding terrain.

“Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function
should be one, joined in a spiritual union” – Frank Lloyd Wright.

The end result is designs like the Dwight D. Martin house which almost seems
to “melt” into the earth.

5. Deconstructivisim
Although Frank Gehry would be the last one to align himself with a school of
design, much of his work has been obsessed with deconstructivism —
destroying all traditions and rebuilding things in your own vision.

“Life is chaotic. Buildings should reflect it” – Frank

Gehry.

The best example of this design philosophy can be seen throughout Gehry’s
substantial body of work, from the radical exterior of the Guggenheim
Museum to the dream-like quality of the ‘Dancing House’.

6. Simplicity
It doesn’t matter whether you are designing a boat or a boot, simplicity always
works. Strip things down to their essential, core purpose and you get the most
fundamental, simplified version of the object.

As Jonathan Ive, easily the best known proponent of simplicity in modern

design, says:

“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an
object and product.”

7. Design as cultural artifact

Yves Behar, often regarded as one of the most influential industrial designers
alive (and chief creative officer of Jawbone) likes to say that “the work of a
designer is really at the intersection of commerce and culture”.

For young designers, it is important to imbibe this philosophy — that designs

are good only when they are a part of culture, not just commerce.

8. Great design is pleasing

The great designer Charles Eames liked to say, “take your pleasures seriously!”
As the designer of countless pieces of furniture, most of which remain popular
50 years after their original inception, Eames definitely knew the importance
of pleasure – mixed with a healthy dose of function, of course.

“The details are not the details. They make the design”
– Charles Eames

This is why any standard Eames chair is pleasing to the eye and pleasing to the
body — a perfect design philosophy to aspire toward.

9. Good design redefines itself, rapidly

Design does not exist in isolation; it is a reflection of the larger society. As
society changes, so should design. The best designers iterate their designs
rapidly to keep pace with society’s demands. A great example is the Apple iOS
design. While early iterations of iOS (up till iOS6) used a skeuomorphic design
ethos to simulate familiarity with UI components, iOS 7 and later versions
used “flat” design. This was done keeping in mind users’ increasing affinity
with user interfaces, half a decade after the first iPhone launch.

Among designers, perhaps the most visible exponent of rapid design iteration
remains Alexander Rodchenko. One of the founding fathers of the
constructivist movement, Rodchenko advocated making multiple variations of
the same subject to capture its “essence”. As he once said:
“One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of
view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than
looked through the same key-hole again and again”

10. Good design is as little design as possible

The key to good design is to subtract, not add. This has been the philosophy of
everyone from Jonathan Ive and Stefan Sagemeister to Diego Armani and
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The more ‘essential’ you can make a product —
that is, the less designed you can make it appear — the more you’ve succeeded.

Great design is difficult to describe — you often know it when you see it. By
following any of the 10 design philosophies described above, however, you will
be that much closer to understanding design and the principles that guide it.

Design philosophy #1: Make your design instinctive

Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa questions why users should have to
think about how they interact their devices – shouldn’t it be instinctive? After all,
seamless user experiences are born of connected interactions between a person and
an object, a user and an interface. Naoto hits the nail on the head with his philosophy
on thinking and designing intuitively.

Naoto’s ‘Without a Thought’ design philosophy has it that design shouldn’t make the
user work. Designers should observe users’ subconscious behavior and how they
typically engage with digital products. Only then can they design solutions that users
can interact with instinctively.

Designers should focus on creating experiences that accommodate users’ interactions

and responses, rather than trying to create new and different experiences that users
can’t relate to. After all, who has time in their day to day to be thinking about how they
should use a device or website?

Instinctive design with Naoto Fukasawa, image credit: Designdb

Make this philosophy your design reality

Designers should perform usability testing to monitor and assess usage patterns
(actions, responses and reactions). The feedback gathered in these tests will indicate
which components of their interface need to be adjusted in order to make the user
experience seamless and intuitive.

Design philosophy #2: Make things to last, don’t replace

them
The Scandinavian design community has a saying: ‘One should be in harmony with his
or her environment, and things should be made to last rather than be replaced’.

Nordic design – that is, of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – is known
for its minimalist style. This approach to design stretches back to the early 20th century,
and promotes simplicity, functionality and nature. Scandinavian minimalism principles of
design are characterized by clean lines and block colors. With its bold yellow and blue
logo and simply-designed furniture built for durability, Ikea is a good example of how
popular this design trend is.

Minimalist design at Ikea, image credit: Ikea

The main purpose of Scandinavian minimalism is to create design things that improve
everyday life – efficient solutions that are built to last. So what can we take away from
this design philosophy? For an encumbered lifestyle, keep things simple.

Make this philosophy your design reality

In terms of principles of design, think ‘less is more’. Stick to the design principles of
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Your user interface shouldn’t contain anything that
doesn’t have a purpose.

Keep your UI uncluttered by kicking off your design process with a basic, low-fidelity
wireframe. Only include the essential UI and navigation elements. Only build up the
design with components that will bring value.

With Justinmind prototyping tool, you can use our Sketching UI kit to create a static
wireframe with basic elements. It’s a great way to visualize your ideas before refining
your designs.
Design philosophy #3: Designers are not users
[bctt tweet=”Anything that exists only to satisfy the ego of the designer must be eliminated. – Eric Reiss” username=”just_in_mind”]

This design philosophy is taken from FatDUX’s Web Dogma, conceived by world-
renowned Informational architecture theorist, Eric Reiss. The Web Dogma is a set of
guidelines for digital products that transcend ever-changing fashions and technological
developments.

What does Eric mean by this? Essentially, designers shouldn’t design for themselves
but for the user. Sure, web and UX designers must have enthusiasm for what they are
building. But this doesn’t mean that they should take their own design assumptions as
gospel.

As user experience guru Jakob Nielsen tells us, ‘designers are not users’ and they
shouldn’t rely on their assumptions of what the user wants or needs. To avoid designing
with bias and really improve the user experience, designers need to get to know their
users.

Make this philosophy your design reality

So how do you overcome the gap between the designer and the user? Perform user
testing to find out how your target users think about the product and to optimize it
accordingly. Make sure you test with real users so that you can ensure that your vision
matches the market reality and that you are designing solutions for your target
audience.

Design philosophy #4: Function over form

“My aim is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to the best possible advantage.” – Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams is a leading member of the Functionalist design movement. Long-time

Industrial Designer, Dieter created his first product in 1955 for Braun. He has inspired a
generation of designers with his design philosophy ‘function over form’. His designs are
driven by the purpose of the object, rather than its aesthetics – seeking to achieve
design purity through reduction and restraint.

Braun product designed by Dieter Rams, image credit: Glenn Walls

In a fast-paced art world, Dieter’s design ethic is timeless, and has contributed to the
birth of what we now know as the modern minimalist design movement.

To make something that people want to use, it needs to be useful. As Dieter puts
it, “good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything
that could possibly detract from it.” No matter how pixel-perfect your interface, you need
to make sure that it works.

Make this philosophy your design reality

A great way to make sure that you are designing according to Dieter’s rule of usability-
over-aesthetics, is to make sure that users can get around your interface and achieve
their end goal.

Try sketching out scenarios and then bringing them to life with an interactive prototyping
tool. Then, validate them with users in order to pinpoint areas of poor usability or
accessibility. This will help you unclutter your UI and focus on the real purpose of your
design.

Design philosophy #5: Good design should be

experienced and not seen
The owner of this final design doctrine is usability and research expert, Jared M. Spool.
In this article, Jared talks about what contributes to good design.

With a good design, the user engages with a selection of features that allow them to
reach their end goal easily. But good design isn’t only what the user sees. What about
the invisible details of the design that are not on the user’s radar? The seamless
interactions, the information architecture, the social media interaction, etc. These all
contribute to a delightful experience.

The better the design, the more subtle it becomes and the less we pay attention to it:
“ It’s like an air conditioner in a conference room. Nobody ever interrupts our meetings to tell us how comfortable the temperature is. They
don’t even notice.” – Jared M. Spool

28 Inspirational
Architecture Quotes by
Famous Architects and
Interior Designers
Updated on January 4, 2020 in Quotes 2019

Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves. – Julia
Morgan
I call architecture frozen music. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There is begins.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled
in the light. – Le Corbusier
Good buildings come from good people and all problems are solved by good
design. – Stephen Gardiner
Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi
98% of what gets built today is shit. – Frank Gehry
Architecture is an expression of values. – Norman Foster
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistakes. – Luis
Barragan
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. – Glenn
Murcutt
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting
all over again. – Renzo Piano
Architecture is not about space but about time. – Vito Acconel
The door handle is the handshake of the building. – Juhani Pallasmaa
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
– David Chipperfield
I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. – Ayn
Rand
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn
As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a
future which is essentially unknown. – Norman Foster
God is in the details. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. –
Tadao Ando
My architecture is easy to understand and enjoy, I hope it also is hard to
forget. – Oscar Niemeyer
Even a brick wants to be something. – Louis Kahn
A room is not a room without natural light. – Louis Kahn
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. – I.M. Pei
Build! Don’t Talk. – Ludwig Mies ven der Rohe
Architects can’t force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points,
remove barriers and make the meeting places useful and attractive. – Denise
Scott