Architect Quotes

A house is a machine for living in.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Men can do all things if they will.
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
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.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Form follows function.
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
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