Popular Architecture Quotes
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| S.No | Quotes | Author |
| 1 | It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. | David Allan Coe |
| 2 | Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. | Julia Morgan |
| 3 | We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. | R. Buckminster Fuller |
| 4 | Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. | Frank Gehry |
| 5 | Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| 6 | Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. | Stephen Gardiner |
| 7 | Architecture begins where engineering ends. | Walter Gropius |
| 8 | I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. | Tadao Ando |
| 9 | Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. | John Portman |
| 10 | The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 11 | To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. | Daniel Libeskind |
| 12 | Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. | Yoshio Taniguchi |
| 13 | The building’s identity resided in the ornament. | Louis Sullivan |
| 14 | Architecture is the art of how to waste space. | Philip Johnson |
| 15 | Each new situation requires a new architecture. | Jean Nouvel |
| 16 | I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. | Luis Barragan |
| 17 | Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building. | John Osborne |
| 18 | We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. | Winston Churchill |
| 19 | 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 Kahn |
| 20 | I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me. | Maya Lin |
| 21 | Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. | Toyo Ito |
| 22 | Less is more. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| 23 | 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 Aalto |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. | Le Corbusier |
| 26 | Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. | Richard Rogers |
| 27 | The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. | Thomas a Kempis |
| 28 | Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. | Arthur Erickson |
| 29 | The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams. | Robert A. M. Stern |
| 30 | Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. | Daniel Burnham |
| 31 | Architecture is inhabited sculpture. | Constantin Brancusi |
| 32 | Form follows function. | Louis Sullivan |
| 33 | My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. | Luis Barragan |
| 34 | I call architecture frozen music. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 35 | Whatever good things we build end up building us. | Jim Rohn |
| 36 | Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. | Arthur Erickson |
| 37 | Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 38 | Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all. | Harry Seidler |
| 39 | We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. | John Ruskin |
| 40 | Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. | Adolf Loos |
| 41 | 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 |
| 42 | 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 Rogers |
| 43 | 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 Ando |
| 44 | Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. | Louis Kahn |
| 45 | Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. | Rem Koolhaas |
| 46 | 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 |
| 47 | Architecture is invention. | Oscar Niemeyer |
| 48 | The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 49 | Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. | Thomas Fuller |
| 50 | Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. | Ernest Dimnet |
| 51 | Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. | Helmut Jahn |
| 52 | My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone. | Julia Morgan |
| 53 | All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! | T. E. Lawrence |
| 54 | Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life. | Arne Jacobsen |
| 55 | Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. | Richard Meier |
| 56 | Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. | Stephen Gardiner |
| 57 | Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings. | Vitruvius |
| 58 | What people want, above all, is order. | Stephen Gardiner |
| 59 | The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. | Harry Seidler |
| 60 | I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. | Ayn Rand |