28 Inspirational Architecture Quotes by Famous Architects and Interior Designers

Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves. – Julia Morgan

I call architecture frozen music. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There is begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light. – Le Corbusier

Good buildings come from good people and all problems are solved by good design. – Stephen Gardiner

Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi

98% of what gets built today is shit. – Frank Gehry

Architecture is an expression of values. – Norman Foster

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers

Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistakes. – Luis Barragan

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. – Glenn Murcutt

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again. – Renzo Piano

Architecture is not about space but about time. – Vito Acconel

The door handle is the handshake of the building. – Juhani Pallasmaa

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. – David Chipperfield

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. – Ayn Rand

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn

As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown. – Norman Foster

God is in the details. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. – Tadao Ando

My architecture is easy to understand and enjoy, I hope it also is hard to forget. – Oscar Niemeyer

Even a brick wants to be something. – Louis Kahn

A room is not a room without natural light. – Louis Kahn

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. – I.M. Pei

Build! Don’t Talk. – Ludwig Mies ven der Rohe

Architects can’t force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers and make the meeting places useful and attractive. – Denise Scott