Architect Quotes

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
God is in the details.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Less is more.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
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