Archive for the 'Quotes' Category

Architectural Quotations

Style is trendy and fleeting. Bad taste is timeless. – Anonymous Home is where you hang your Architect. – Clare Booth Luce Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. – Thomas Fuller All architects want to live beyond their deaths. – Philip Johnson Architecture is easy: you just stare at the [...]

Creation of Architects

“Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair.” – Karen Moyer

Quote by Glenn Murcutt

Sometimes I wonder how do we go about judging an architect’s success? The amount of work done? the number of awards won? The net income per month? number of staffs? Books published? Australian architect Glenn Murcutt got it right. Sometimes, small is beautiful, and successful.

The Diary by Trevor Howells

Of all the arts in the world, none is more fundamental to the way we live than architecture. It is a mirror of our own time and of times gone by, a diary that is written in mud and timber, in brick and stone, in iron and steel, in concrete and glass. Our homes, our [...]

Architecture Quotes 05

“Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.” – Philip Johnson “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” – Ludwig Mies van der [...]

Architecture Quotes 04

“I do not believe architecture should speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind speak.” – Tadao Ando “People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. [...]

Architecture Quotes 03

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe “Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music” – Friedrich von Schelling “Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both [...]