Quotes about Architecture

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Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occ — Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each t — Frank Lloyd Wright
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrine — Walter Gropius
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it. — Harwell Hamilton Harris
Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him. — Etienne Gaboury
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to — Frank Lloyd Wright
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 — Eero Saarinen
In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the l — Chao-Ming Wu
A house is a machine for living. — Buckminster Fuller
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorpo — John F. Kennedy
Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. — Winston Churchill
I call architecture 'petrified music'. — Goethe
Form ever follows function. — Louis H. Sullivan
Old houses mended Cost little less than new before they're ended. — Anonymous
Architecture is frozen music. — Goethe
Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great arch — I.M. Pei
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. — I.M. Pei