“A Design Should Begin With Its Section”

– Kay

“Less Is Bore”

– Robert Venturie

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

– Frank Gehry

“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”

– Zaha Hadid

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure.”

– Zaha Hadid

“To create, one must first question everything.”

– Eileen Gray

 “Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”  

– Rem Koolhaus

“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”  

– Charles Eames

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”  

– Le Corbusier

“God is in the details.”  

– Mies van der Rohe

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

– David Chipperfield

Less is only more where more is no good.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

-Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.’ And then you say: ‘What do you think of that, brick?’ Brick says: ‘I like an arch.’

-Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

– Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There is begins.

– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

-Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.

-St. Jerome

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

– Ayn Rand