Uitspraken over architectuur
Quotes about architecture
De bouwmassa is de begrenzing van de lege ruimte
Gerrit Rietveld
Less is more.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Minder is alleen beter waar méér niet goed is.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Amerikaans architect 1869-1959
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand, Russisch / Amerikaans schrijver en filosoof 1905-1982
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Amerikaans architect 1869-1959
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Helmut Jahn, architect
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Alvar Aalto
I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Saul Steinberg
What people want, above all, is order.
Stephen Gardiner
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner, architect
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Antonio Gaudi, Catalaanse architect 1852-1926
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill, staatsman
My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.
Julia Morgan, architect
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.
Robert A. M. Stern
Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have.
Maya Lin
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem KoolhaasNederlandse architect 1944
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos, oostenrijkse architect 1870-1933
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le CorbusierZwitsers-Frans architect, 1887-1965
Het goede gebouw komt eigenlijk spontaan naar voren, een goed stuk architectuur is een spontaan stuk werk.
Gerrit Rietveld
But the building’s identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan
Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan
Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Marcus V. Pollio
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
Copiers do not collaborate.
Antonio Gaudi
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life.
Arne Jacobsen
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Tadao Ando
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin Puryear
To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
Martha Graham
Een dokter kan zijn fouten begraven, maar een architect kan zijn cliënten alleen maar adviseren om klimop te planten.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Amerikaanse architect 1869-1959
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto, Finse architect 1898-1976
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
Michael Graves, Amerikaanse architect en designer 1934
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi
Iemand die de fundamenten van zijn macht niet van te voren legt, zou dat met grote persoonlijke inzet ook achteraf nog kunnen doen, ook al gaat dit laatste gepaard met moeilijkheden voor de bouwmeester en gevaren voor het bouwwerk.
Machiavelli, Florentijns staatsfilosoof 1469-1527
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