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