Quotes-Architects A-G

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Alvar Aalto


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


My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Tadao Ando

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Tadao Ando

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Tadao Ando

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Leon Battista Alberti


Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Christopher Alexander


Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Christopher Alexander


My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Luis Barragan


I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Luis Barragan


A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Luis Barragan


I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Le Corbusier


Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Le Corbusier


Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Arthur Erickson


Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Arthur Erickson


Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Arthur Erickson


We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Arthur Erickson


You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Arthur Erickson


Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antonio Gaudi


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 begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius


Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Walter Gropius


Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Walter Gropius