20 INSPIRING ARCHITECTURE QUOTES

Here are 20 Inspiring architectural quotes by great architects who had gracefully influence architecture.

   1)    “Recognizing the needs is the primary condition for design” – Charles Eames

       2)    “Less is more” – Mies Van Der Rohe

   3)    “But building’s identity resided in the ornament”  - Louis Sullivan

(4)    “Not many Architects have the luxury to reject significant things” – Rem Koolhaus

(5)    “You have got to bumble forward into the unknown” – Frank Gehry

(6)    “An idea is salvation by imagination” – Frank Lloyd Wright.

(7)    “Architecture begins where engineering ends” – Walter Groupius

(8)    “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space” – Mies Van Der Rohe

(9)    “To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and Objects.” – Le Cobusier

(10)“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.” Kenzo Tange

(11)“I hate Vacations; if you can build building, why sit on the beach?” – Philip Johnson

(12)“God is in the details” – Mies Van Der Rohe

(13)“Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility." Frank Llyod Wright.

(14)“A hundred times have I thought that New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.” -  Le Corbusier.

(15)“No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.” – John Ruskin

(16)“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” Frank Gehry

(17)“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames

(18)“There will never be great architect or great architecture without great patrons.” – Edwin Lutyens

(19)“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect will only advise his clients to plant vines.” – Frank Lloyd Wright.

(20)“Architectural impressionism must be born out of willingness to express.” – Adekunle Abidemi.

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