The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
Thomas a Kempis
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception... →
T. E. Lawrence
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an... →
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
Russell Lynes