Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Vitruvius
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large... →
Ai Weiwei
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Minoru Yamasaki
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
Harry von Zell
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a... →
Daniel Burnham
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
Bryant H. McGill