Architecture is not only an example of what humans can do with imagination and construction materials, magnificent works, solid palaces and temples that, despite their millennial age, are still stable and present today. It also represents the ability to move forward and give anyone a home to love.
To better understand this art and its nuances, here we will review several of the best architecture phrases
1. By building well, you become a good architect. (Aristotle)
The best buildings are those that stand firm.
2. Buildings must be adapted to the needs and different conditions of the people who will inhabit them. (Marcus Vitruvius)
Even the architecture needs to advance and update.
3. Beauty perishes in life but is immortal in art. (Leonardo da Vinci)
A great way to see it is through the old structures.
4. The job of today’s architect is to create beautiful buildings. That’s all. (Philip Johnson)
A bit superficial work.
5. The world is not a right angle. (Zaha Hadid)
As everything changes and moves, so does the world.
6. The house should be the case of life, the machine of happiness. (Le Corbusier)
It must be a personal environment that offers us peace and happiness.
7. A building has two lives. The one that its creator imagines and the life he has. And they are not always the same. (Rem Koolhaas)
Not everything happens as we plan.
8. The practice of architecture is the most delicious of tasks. It is also, along with agriculture, the most necessary for man. (Philip Johnson)
It is necessary for life, because we all deserve a home.
9. Architects do not invent anything, they only transform reality. (Alvaro Siza)
They capture what will eventually happen.
10. Architecture awakens feelings in man. Therefore, the architect’s task is to make those feelings more precise. (Adolf Loos)
It is bringing to reality what is created in the mind.
11. The many and very complex questions that we face today, such as sustainability, ecology or smart city, are an opportunity for architects. (Jean-Philippe)
12. My architecture is a kind of nature framework. (Kengo Kuma)
A way to respect our green world.
13. My priority is to focus on what improves people’s quality of life, that makes them healthier and happier. (Norman Foster)
A way to make people happier.
14. Architecture cannot force people to connect, it can only plan crossing points, remove barriers, and make meeting places useful and attractive. (Denise Scott Brown)
Eliminate those barriers that distance us.
15. The details are not the details. The details are the design. (Charles Eames)
The details are part of the whole.
16. Always place a controversial piece in decoration. It will give your guests a topic of conversation. (Dorothy Draper)
Everyone draws their attention to a distinctive element.
17. Love color. Take risks. Be curious. (Kelly Wearstler)
It is an opportunity to experiment.
18.I try to understand the place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It also includes cultural and intellectual forces. (Antoine Predock)
It is an element that encompasses all phases of humanity.
19. I always liked to talk about architecture as entertainment; If it is not done happily it is not architecture. (Alejandro de la Sota)
Everything we do must be done with love and joy,
20. What is design? A plan to place elements in the best way to achieve a particular purpose. (Charles Eames)
A way of seeing the purpose of the design.
21. Ecological responsibility must be the driving force behind the planning of such settlements. (Richard Rogers)
Constructions must respect nature, not destroy it.
22. Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi)
Being able to live in something beautiful.
23. Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves. (Julia Morgan)
We can verify this with the ancient constructions that continue to amaze us.
24. Architecture is the least bribable witness in history. (Octavio Paz)
He is the only one who expresses the truth without alterations/
25. Architects know everything about the Romantic style, except how to build it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
A criticism of the romantic style.
26. Architecture is not about designing something from a free and fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one’s own principle, some kind of regularity. (Shigeru Ban)
The design that is reflected in all architecture.
27. Architecture is the reach of truth. (Louis I. Khan)
It is the way in which history can be shown as it was.
28. I believe that buildings should imitate ecological ecosystems. (Ken Yeang)
Bring nature to the city.
29. The aesthetics of architecture should be based on a broader idea about human activities such as walking, relaxing and communicating. (Thom Mayne)
It should be friendly and make everyday life easier.
30. The objective of architecture is to find the best way to distribute space so that people feel good in it. (John Pawson)
It is making a comfortable and charming place to live.
31. My work is not about ‘form follows function’, but rather ‘form follows beauty’ or, better yet, ‘form follows femininity’. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Each architect has his own inspiration that drives him.
32. We must try to bring nature, houses and human beings closer to a higher unity. (Mies van der Rohe)
The future of architecture must focus on being kind to the environment.
33. The more advanced a country is, the less attention it pays to architecture. (Rafael Moneo)
An evil that must be changed.
34. I believe that life is celebrated when lifestyle and architecture merge. (Balkrishna Doshi)
The perfect combination between interior and exterior.
35. Architecture does not exist without people. (Kjetil Trædal Thorsen)
Who is going to admire architecture if not humans?
36. The rule of architecture is to do things with love and obsession in great proportion. (Miguel Fisac)
But always with the purpose of leaving something beautiful.
37. Architecture is based on science as well as intuition. (Jorn Utzon)
It is the midpoint between logic and instinct.
38. The simple joy of taking an idea into your own hands and giving it proper shape is exciting. (George Nelson)
It is a perfect example of how we can use our creativity.
39. I believe that the architect must be a humanist. His vision must be global, universal and therefore local. (Carlos Raúl Villanueva)
The most important characteristic that an architect must have.
40. To create, one must first question everything. (Eileen Gray)
To bring something new, we must study what already exists.
41. Architecture points to eternity. (Christopher Wren)
To be a piece of the past in the future.
42. Architecture must belong to the environment where it is going to be located and adorn the landscape instead of disgracing it. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
A reflection on not attacking nature to please people’s whims.
43. The extension of the art of housing is the art of living, living in harmony with the deepest impulses of man and with his adopted or prefabricated environment. (Charlotte Perriand)
Any house can be converted into a home.
44. We have to base architecture on the environment. (Toyo Ito)
Insisting on combining the environment with the architecture.
45. If a work is intense, valid and has a powerful idea, it will make the imperfections remain in the background. (Alberto Campo Baeza)
Perfection is in the beauty of different things.
46. Memory is an intrinsic part of architecture, because without knowing where we have been, we have no idea where we are going. (Daniel Libeskind)
The past is essential to improve the way of construction.
47. Functional is better than beautiful, because what works well lasts over time. (Ray Eames)
A beautiful facade is worthless if it fades soon.
48. Form follows function. (Walter Gropius)
There can not be one without the other.
49. The pride of those who cannot build is to destroy. (Alexandre Dumas)
That is why many terrorists destroy important works.
50. Architecture does not deal with abstract things like philosophy. (Peter Zumthor)
It is a combination of strategy and empathy with feelings.
51. Every new situation requires a new architecture. (Jean Nouvel)
Architecture should not be static.
52. The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend in it. (David Chipperfield)
It is better to have a strong foundation than a quick job.
53. Architecture builds a landscape or builds a city: it is not a sculpture. (Carme Pinós)
The difference between architecture and sculpture.
54. The only sustainable form of urban development is compact cities. (Richard Rogers)
Talking about the future of sustainable architecture.
55. Whenever possible, it is better to strip a building naked. (Toyo Ito)
A spiritual way of dealing with architecture.
56. Architecture is one more component to produce relevant changes in society. (Michel Rojkind)
It is an example of how a society advances.
57. Space is meaningless without light. A building speaks through the silence of perception orchestrated by light. (Steven Holl)
The importance of providing light to buildings.
58. We shape our buildings, then they shape us. (Winston Churchill)
As we are part of society, we are also part of its architecture.
59. Originality consists of returning to the origin; Thus, original is that which returns to the simplicity of the first solutions. (Antonio Gaudi)
The original can be a twist on the classic.
60. My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. (Luis Barragan)
The right way every home should feel.
61. I found Rome as a city of bricks and left it as a city of marble. (August)
A great example of how spaces can become iconic.
62. In any architecture there is an equality between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. (Michael Graves)
A way to combine logic with emotions.
63. Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. (Luis Barragan)
Every structure must transmit a little peace to its inhabitants.
64. Architecture is the learned, correct and magnificent game of forms assembled in light. (Le Corbusier)
Prevent structures from being plunged into darkness.
65. When I am working on a problem, I never think about its beauty. I just think about how to solve the problem. But when I finish it, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. (Richard Buckminster Fuller)
Strict work can also result in something beautiful.
66. The architect is the synthetic man, the one who is capable of seeing things as a whole before they are made. (Antoni Gaudí)
A way of seeing the future.
67. Light is not something vague and diffuse that can be taken for granted simply because it is always there. The sun does not rise in vain every day. (Alberto Campo Baeza)
Using light is essential for every construction.
68. Architecture is the art of spending space. (Philip Johnson)
Use white space to bring it to life.
69. There is no house so bad that it cannot be turned into something worthwhile. (Elsie de Wolfe)
Every house can recover with a touch of love.
70. The architect’s task is to provide life with a more sensible structure. (Alvar Aalto)
A construction that makes us reflect and be grateful.
71. An architect is a draftsman of dreams. (Grace McGarvie)
The greatest capacity of architectural talent.
72. There are such a large number of large cities in the world that the people who live in them live more isolated than ever. (Toyo Ito)
Cities are attractive but they can also be overwhelming.
73. Architecture is a way to translate dreams into the real world. (Bijiarke Ingels)
Build the imagination.
74. I always believed that my architecture would solve more issues than my political action. (Rem Koolhaas)
Even buildings can carry a message of revolution.
75. I have always affirmed that places are stronger than people. (Aldo Rossi)
Places help tell the stories of a place.
76. To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. (Daniel Libeskind)
It is leaving a mark that manages to honor a historical time.
77. Architects spend a lifetime with this reasonable idea that you can fight gravity. (Renzo Piano)
Every time, they are more risky with their creativity.
78. Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be an original interpreter of his time, his days, his age. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
A way to relate architecture with art.
79. The purpose of a house is to provide a good and comfortable life, and it would be a mistake to value too much an exclusively decorative result. (Lina Bo Bardi)
Every house should have an air of a personal home.
80. Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. (Frank Gehry)
Represent an era, but that manages to prevail in the future time.
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