Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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.
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