Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in... →
Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a... →
Tadao Ando
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining... →
Michael Arad
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Luis Barragan
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill