Architecture Quotes

Architecture is not a matter of style, but a matter of truth.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I ought to be jealous of the Tower. It is much more famous than I am.

Nature is the best architect, and we are but her humble apprentices.

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I have built a mosque for Sultan Süleyman, which is like a pearl in the ocean of Istanbul.

Architecture is not about building; it's about ideas.

Architecture is not about building; it's about creating places for people to live, work, and dream.

I am interested in the creation of a new architecture, not in the revival of an old one.

I am not interested in the new, but in the permanent.

My work is about light. It is about the quality of light, the way light defines space, and the way light articulates form.

Architecture is not a singular object, but a field of forces.

Architecture is not about building; it's about creating a space that speaks to the human spirit.

Bigness is no longer about the city, but about the globe.

I have always been fascinated by the relationship between structure and movement, and how that can be expressed in architecture.

Architecture is the art of making cities, not just buildings.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

As man is the most perfect of all creatures, so is the perfect building the most perfect of all works of art.

Architecture is the art of building monuments that speak to eternity.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.