“Form ever follows function.”
“Don't fight forces, use them.”
“Architecture is petrified music.”
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”
“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
“Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.”
“The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.”
“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
“All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.”
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.”
“When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”
“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.”
“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.”
“You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.”
“Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
“Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.”
“''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?”