Definition of Architecture
*. Marco Frascari
“Architecture is the art of constructing meaningful places through construction details that 'tell a story.'” - From "The Tell-the-Tale Detail" (1984)
1. Le Corbusier
“Architecture is the learned game, correct & magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
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2. Louis Sullivan
“Form ever follows function.”
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3. Frank Gehry
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
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4. Antoni Gaudí
“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.”
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5. Charles Correa
“Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. ... Beneath and beyond … function and structure … lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.”
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6. Paul Rudolph
“Architecture is not a question of the purely theoretical if you're interested in building buildings. It's the art of what is possible.”
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7. Bernard Tschumi
“Architecture is always related to power and related to large interests, whether financial or political.”
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8. Nicolai Ouroussoff
“Architecture is an act of optimism.”
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9. Bjarke Ingels
“For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It’s a means of making different life forms possible.” “Architecture is the art of translating all the immaterial structures of society — social, cultural, economical and political — into physical structures.”
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10. Norman Foster
“As an architect, you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.”
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11. Zaha Hadid
“I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter… It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.” BrainyQuote
12. Rem Koolhaas
“Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a chaotic adventure…” A-Z Quotes
13. Christopher Alexander
“The more living patterns there are in a place… the more it glows… the more it has that self‑maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.” A-Z QuotesBrainyQuote
(On design process)
“Every individual act of building is a process in which space gets differentiated… the whole precedes the parts.” Goodreads
14. Tadao Ando
“In Architecture there is a part that is the result of logical reasoning and a part that is created through the senses. There is always a point where they clash.” A-Z Quotes
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“We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.” ArchDaily
15. Norman Foster
“Architecture is an expression of values.” A-Z Quotes
16. Frank Lloyd Wright
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” mirage.studio.7Architizer
17. Yinka Ilori
"As designers, we have such power to make design change the world. We really need to make better use of our platform and do stuff that is useful"
18. David Adjaye
"Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche"
19. Gae Aulenti
“I am convinced that architecture is tied to the polis, it is an art of the city… Place, time, and culture create that architecture, instead of another.”
20. Farshid Moussavi
“Architecture is collaborative. The idea that any practice is marked by one woman, or one man, is a discussion to be overcome.”
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