Architecture begins where engineering ends. By Walter Gropius Architects, Architecture, Beginning, Engineering
Less is a bore. By Robert Venturi, in response to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s credo Architects, Architecture, Life, Minimalism
The postwar architecture is the accountant’s revenge on the prewar businessmen’s dreams. By Rem Koolhaas Accountants, Accounting, Architects, Architecture, Sarcastic
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. By Le Corbusier Architects, Architecture, Light
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don’t wrap fish in our work. By Hugh Newell Jacobsen Architects, Architecture, Footprint, Funny, Sarcastic
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines. By Frank Lloyd Wright Architects, Architecture, Funny, Sarcastic
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form, and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. By Frank Lloyd Wright Architects, Architecture
If we build in the desert, let the house know the desert and the desert be proud of the house. By Frank Lloyd Wright Architects, Architecture, Desert, House
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. By Eero Saarinen Architects, Architecture, Life
Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. By Ambrose Bierce Architects, Architecture, House, Money