Famous Quotes About architecture

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

What people want, above all, is order.

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

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

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.