Architecture Quotes

56 quotes from Architecture thinkers

The most beautiful things are those that are most useful.

Andrea Palladio

Architecture

I shall place the Pantheon upon the Basilica of Maxentius.

Donato Bramante

Architecture

A building is a kind of body, which, like all other bodies, is composed of its parts and its members.

Leon Battista Alberti

Architecture

To build is to serve God and man.

Filippo Brunelleschi

Architecture

My works are a testament to the glory of God and the power of the Ottoman Empire.

Sinan

Architecture

The dome, a symbol of the heavens, must rest upon the earth with grace and strength, uniting the divine with the terrestrial.

Isidore of Miletus

Architecture

The Parthenon, a temple of Athena, was built by Callicrates and Ictinus.

Callicrates

Architecture

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Imhotep

Architecture

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Architecture

Well building hath three conditions: firmness, commodity, and delight.

Vitruvius

Architecture

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I.M. Pei

Architecture

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Zaha Hadid

Architecture

Originality consists of returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudí

Architecture

God is in the details.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture

A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Architecture

Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function are one.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture