Philosophy Quotes

"A sip of coffee is my eternity."

- Bhuwan Thapaliya

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."

- Daniel Libeskind

"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all."

- I.M Pei

"Architecture is the stage on which we live."

- Sean Godsell

"Form follows beauty."

- Oscar Niemeyer

"Architecture frames human existence and experience; it orchestrates light and space, movement and mood."

- Juhani Pallasmaa

"Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake."

- Luis Barragán

"The best landscapes reveal themselves gradually, like the best love affairs."

- Piet Oudolf

"The essence of architecture is space, light, and order."

- Le Corbusier

"Architecture is not about form, it’s about life."

- Bjarke Ingels

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"As a building is man’s bodily covering, so architecture is the enclosing envelope of all the arts."

- Vitruvius

"Order and arrangement, symmetry and definiteness, are the qualities that give value to architecture."

- Vitruvius

"The design of a building must first and foremost be functional; it must not only look good but also work well."

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

"Architecture is the bony structure of civilization."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."

- Rem Koolhaas

"I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do."

- Frank Gehry

"My work is not about “form follows function”, but “form follows beauty” or, even better, “form follows feminine”."

- Oscar Niemeyer

"Architecture aims at Eternity."

- Sir Christopher Wren

"Architecture is frozen music."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Geography is Destiny"

- Jack Ryan

"There are no heroes or villains, just people with different agendas"

- Matthew Murdock

"It’s so exhausting, waiting for death."

- Phoebe Buffay

"What you call love was invented by guys like me... to sell Nylons."

- Don Draper

"Life is precious because you can’t watch it again. I mean, you can believe in an afterlife if that makes you feel better. Doesn’t mean it’s true."

- Tony Johnson

"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."

- Yoshio Taniguchi

"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."

- Constantin Brancusi

"We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers."

- Glenn Murcutt

"Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance."

- Rem Koolhaas

"Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped."

- Mark Wigley