Architecture Quotes

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

I am always searching for more light and space.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

Space is the breath of art.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.