“Tradition is a challenge to innovation.” Bjarke Ingels “The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.” Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.” Alvaro Siza “God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. “I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.” “Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.” “Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.” “Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.” Alvar Aalto Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.” “There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. “Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.” “We had better not enjoy the moment, but create the moment.” Antoni Gaudi “The natural desire to save a cat is what it means to be a citizen.” Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works.
It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. “To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. The work is a private matter for the artist. “The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The architect’s task, therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.” Here we have a selection of architecture quotes, insights and words of wisdom from some of the world’s most famous past and present architects …hoping to inspire and add a small insight in their work and thought processesĮnjoy! 132 Famous Architecture Quotes Adolf Loos
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