The Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Says “A great architect is not made by way of a brain

nearly so much as he is made by way of a
cultivated, enriched heart.”
Vitruvius
Frank Lloyd Wright
“A harmonious design requires that nothing be
added or taken away.” “Organic architecture seeks superior sense of
use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in
Le Corbusier organic simplicity.”
“A house is a machine for living in.” Winston Churchill
Le Corbusier “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and us.”
magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” Gustave Eiffel
Mies van der Rohe “The first principle of architectural beauty is
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated that the essential lines of a construction be
into space.” determined by a perfect appropriateness to its
use.”
Mies van der Rohe
Richard Meier
“Less is more.”
“When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I
Robert Venturi believe in architecture. Architecture is the
“Less is a bore.” mother of the arts. I like to believe that
architecture connects the present with the past
Philip Johnson and the tangible with the intangible.”
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” Renzo Piano
Louis Sullivan “A museum is a place where one should lose
one’s head.”
“Form follows function.”
Robert A.M. Stern
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The dialogue between client and architect is
“The mother art is architecture. Without an
about as intimate as any conversation you can
architecture of our own we have no soul of our
have, because when you’re talking about
own civilization.”
building a house, you’re talking about dreams.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Norman Foster
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“As an architect you design for the present,
Frank Lloyd Wright with an awareness of the past, for a future
which is
“Space is the breath of art.”

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essentially unknown.” Adolf Loos

“Supply and demand regulate architectural

form.”
Norman Foster
Kenzo Tange
“Architecture is an expression of values.”
“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be
Walter Gropius
expected to last long.”
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
Zaha Hadid
Frank Gehry
“Architecture is really about well-being. I think
“Architecture should speak of its time and that people want to feel good in a space… On
place, but yearn for timelessness.” the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also
about pleasure. “
Frank Gehry
Charles Eames
“98% of what gets built today is shit.”
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition
Oscar Niemeyer for design.”
“My work is not about 'form follows function’, John Ruskin
but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form
follows feminine.” “When we build, let us think that we build
forever.”
Tadao Ando
Peter Eisenman
“You cannot simply put something new into a
place. You have to absorb what you see around “The architecture we remember is that which
you, what exists on the land, and then use that never consoles or comforts us.”
knowledge along with contemporary thinking to
Eero Saarinen
interpret what you see.”
“To me the drawn language is a very revealing
Daniel Libeskind
language: one can see in a few lines whether a
“Architecture is not based on concrete and steel man is really an architect.”
and the elements of the soil. It’s based on
Eliel Saarinen
wonder.”
“Always design a thing by considering it in its
Buckminster Fuller
next larger context – a chair in a room, a room
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think in a house, a house in an environment, an
about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the environment in a city plan.”
solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong.”
Louis Kahn
Adolf Loos
“A great building must begin with the
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The immeasurable, must go through measurable
architect’s task therefore, is to make those means when it is being designed, and in the end
sentiments more precise.” must be unmeasured.”

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Louis Kahn “There is a rumour that I can’t draw and never
could. This is probably because I work so much
“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges
with models. Models are one of the most
from selection, affinities, integration, and love.”
beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest
Paul Rudolph drawings you can imagine.”

“The essential element in architecture is the

manipulation of space. It is this essence which
Daniel Burnham
separates it from all other arts.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir
Rem Koolhaas
men's blood. Make big plans; aim high in hope
“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and work, remembering that a noble, logical
and impotence.” diagram once recorded will not die, but long
after we are gone be a living thing, asserting
Antoni Gaudi itself with ever-growing insistence.”
“Ornamentation has been, is, and will be Alvar Aalto
polychrome. Nature does not present us with
an object in monochrome, totally uniform with “Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised
respect to colour – not in vegetation, not in form. We should try to bring in under the same
geology, not in topography, not in the animal hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in
kingdom. Always the contrast of colour is more harmony together.”
or less lively, and for this reason we must colour
Richard Rogers
wholly or in part every architectural element.”
“My passion and great enjoyment for
Santiago Calatrava
architecture, and the reason the older I get the
“I am always searching for more light and more I enjoy it, is because I believe we -
space.” architects - can affect the quality of life of the
people.”
Shigeru Ban
Jean Nouvel
“I believe that the material doesn’t need to be
strong to be used to build a strong structure. “Each new situation requires a new
The strength of the structure has nothing to do architecture.”
with strength of the material.”
Christopher Wren
Steven Holl
“Architecture aims at eternity.”
“For me, the excitement in architecture
Edwin Lutyens
revolves around the idea and the phenomenon
of the experience of that idea. Residences offer “There will never be great architects or great
almost immediate gratification. You can shape architecture without great patrons.”
space, light, and materials to a degree that you
Toyo Ito
sometimes can't in larger projects.”
“Architects have made architecture too
Jørn Utzon
complex. We need to simplify it and use a
language that everyone can understand.”

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Michael Graves “The great thing about being an architect is you
can walk into your dreams.”
“In any architecture, there is an equity between
the pragmatic function and the symbolic
function.”

Aldo Rossi
Luis Barragan
“What surprises me most in architecture, as in
“Architecture is an art when one consciously or
other techniques, is that a project has one life in
unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the
its built state but another in its written or drawn
atmosphere and when this environment
state."
produces well being.”
Minoru Yamasaki
Arne Jacobsen
“The purpose of architecture is to create an
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is
atmosphere in which man can live, work, and
art.”
enjoy.”
Alvaro Siza
Julia Morgan
“Tradition is a challenge to innovation.”
“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings
speak for themselves.” Odile Decq
Arthur Erickson “Architecture is much more than a profession;
It’s a discipline.”
“Profit and bottom line, the contemporary
mantra, eliminates the very source of John Pawson
architectural expression.”
“Architecture isn't just about creating new
Bruce John Graham buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's
already there.”
“Architecture is the design of space, both
interior and exterior. So it’s much more closely Walter Gropius
related to dance than it is to painting or
sculpture.” “Our ultimate goal, therefore, was the
composite but inseparable work of art --- the
John Portman great building --- in which the old dividing line
between monumental and decorative elements
“Architecture is not a private affair; even a
would have disappeared forever.”
house must serve a whole family and its friends,
and most buildings are used by everybody,
people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet
the needs of all the people, the architect must
look for some common ground of
understanding and experience.”

Harold Wagoner