“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 got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.”
– Philip Johnson
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
– Philip Johnson
“You can’t photograph that building. Only people who have been there can experience it.”
– Steven Holl in the NY Times
“That is the architecture I do, looking for new, different forms. Surprise is key in all art.”
– Oscar Niemeyer
