Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Saul Steinberg
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into... →
Frank Stella
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a... →
Robert A. M. Stern
Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Kenzo Tange
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau