Architecture quotations

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◆ 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.

- Richard Rogers99

◆ Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

- Frank Lloyd Wright99

◆ I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

- Julia Morgan99

◆ Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe99

◆ A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

- Louis Kahn99

◆ Architecture begins where engineering ends.

- Walter Gropius99

◆ I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

- Tadao Ando99

◆ When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

- Tadao Ando99

◆ A house is a machine for living in.

- Le Corbusier99

◆ Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

- Harry Seidler99

◆ Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

- Louis Kahn99

◆ Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

- Alvar Aalto99

◆ Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

- Thomas Fuller99

◆ Less is more.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe99