Best Architecture Quotes, Architecture Sayings: Architecture is an art or practice of designing and constructing buildings or it holds the process and the product of designing, planning, constructing buildings and other physical structures.

There are so many finest skyscrapers, tallest buildings and elegant churches, mosques, and eye-catching residences of millionaires and billionaires those are considered praiseworthy all around the world.

In simple term, Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings, while Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Wuhan Greenland Center in Wuhan, China, One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City are considered one of the incredible creations by Architecture.

When it comes to history of building designing, the Roman architect Vitruvius’s earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura in the early 1st century AD presents existence of Architecture in past.

Nonetheless, Vitruvius said that a good building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas usually known by the original translation as commodity, delight, and firmness. His three points are an equivalent in modern English as Durability, Utility, and Beauty.

Before construction, every builder requires planning and designing to build a project because without using these two methods and that duty is performed by an Architect, in case we can’t construct impressive structure.

Here Are Best Architecture Quotes, Architecture Quotes

 

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” ― Robertson Davies

 

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

 

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

 

 

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  “It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.” ― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

 

“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

 

“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.” ― Karl Lagerfeld

 

“I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics

 

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” – Constantin Brancusi

 

“Cheops’ Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

 

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” ― Winston S Churchill

 

 

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“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.” ― Ezra Pound

 

“The door handle is the handshake of the building.” ― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

 

“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

 

“A house can have integrity, just like a person,’ said Roark, ‘and just as seldom.” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

 

“Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.” ― Aldous Huxley

 

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

 

 

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“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” ― Michelangelo

 

“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today’s blind architecture – a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!” ― André Breton

 

“Architecture is an expression of values.” – Norman Foster

 

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