Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Form ever follows function.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis...
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for a...
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
Women are the real architects of society.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
An arch never sleeps.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
The flowering of geometry.
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anach...
I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
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