50 Architecture Quotes for the Portfolio
4 min readJun 6, 2021
- “An idea is a salvation by imagination.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
- “It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” — David Allan Coe
- “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
- “As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” — Norman Foster
- “To create, one must first question everything.” — Eileen Gray
- “Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.” — Stephen Gardiner
- “Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.” — John Portman
- “There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” — Zaha Hadid
- The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. — David Chipperfield
- Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. — Louis Kahn
- “Architecture starts where you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins” — Ludwig Mies van der rohe
- “Architecture is an expression of values” — Norman Foster
- 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
- Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. — I.M. Pei
- “Architecture begins where engineering ends”– Walter Gropius
- “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light” — Le Corbusier
- “Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder” –Daniel Libeskind
- “God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper” — Alvar Aalto
- 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
- “Less is more,” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- “ Architecture is the reaching out for truth”– Louis I Kahn
- “Each new situation requires a new architecture” — Jean Nouvel
- “Form ever follows function”-Louis Henry Sullivan
- “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” –Frank Gehry
- “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” — Philip Johnson
- “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” — Mies van der Rohe
- “To create, one must first question everything.” — Eileen Gray
- “No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.” — John Ruskin
- “Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don’t read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years” -Renzo Piano
- “Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.” -Walter Gropius
- “As designers, we have such power to make design change the world. We really need to make better use of our platform and do stuff that is useful” — Yinka Ilori
- “I think you never stop learning.” — Norman Foster
- “Less is a bore.” — Robert Venturi
- “Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.” -Richard Rogers
- “To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” -Le Corbusier
- “Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge” — Bernard Tschumi
- “All fine architectural values are human values. Else not valuable.” — Frank Lloyd wright
- “Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.” — Rem Koolhaas
- “We borrow from nature space upon which we built “ -TadoAndo
- “Architecture is the thoughtful making of space”– Louis I Kahn
- “Design should never say, “Look at me!” It should always say, “Look at this!”.— David Craib
- “Architecture is not about space but about time” — Vito Acconci
- “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” — Mies van de Rohe
- “Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.” — Joe Sparano
- “Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.” — Rem Koolhaas.
- “I’ve noticed the computer sometimes leads to rather bland decision-making; Now, anybody can do a wobbly, blobby building.” — Peter Cook
- “Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.” — Luis barragán.
- “Design is where science and art break even.” — Mieke Gerritzen
