35 architecture phrases for those who are passionate about great projects

Architecture is only considered complete with the intervention of the human being who experiences it.

Tadao Ando

Nature is God’s work of art. Architecture is the work of art of men.

Mariana Gil

The purpose of the house is to provide a convenient and comfortable life, and it would be a mistake to place too much value on an exclusively decorative result.

Lina Bo Bardi

Architecture is the will of an era translated into space.

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

It is through architecture that you know the history of a society.

Mariana Gil

Architecture is not an art, for anything that serves a purpose is excluded from the sphere of art.

Adolf Loos

Architecture is a state of mind and not a profession.

Le Corbusier

The architecture of a place not only enchants for its beauty and exuberance, but also for all the culture it carries in its details.

Mariana Gil

Architecture must speak of its time and place, yet it yearns to be timeless.

Frank Owen Gehry

Architecture is art, and this has always been in my spirit.

Álvaro Siza Vieira

Architecture is the art that determines the identity of our time and improves people’s lives.

Santiago Calatrava

From a trace, architecture is born. And when it’s beautiful and creates surprise, it can, if handled well, reach the top level of a work of art.

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is responsible for creating incredible works of art in every corner of the city.

Mariana Gil

Architecture is not a course, it is a path, a journey. Of all the arts, this one satisfies me, takes from me all that I am capable of. Even what I am not, makes me!

Emanuel Souto

I often tell architecture students that it is not enough to leave school to be a good professional. The subject has to open up to the world and not fall behind the narrow vision of specialists.

Oscar Niemeyer

To be an architect is to make the projection of dreams from simple traits.

I admire the gift of architects to transform simple ideas into grandiose works.

Mariana Gil

Architecture is the wise, correct and magnificent play of volumes placed under light.

Le Corbusier

Architecture is the scientific art of making structures express ideas.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Real architecture is made with beauty, balance and reason.

Architecture carries the identity of a people through its lines, shapes and colors.

Mariana Gil

Architecture is something to be experienced.

Lucio Costa

Architecture is petrified music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture is the art that so disposes and adorns the buildings erected by man, for any use, that seeing them can contribute to his mental health, power and pleasure.

John Ruskin

Architecture is the physiognomy of nations.

Marquis de Custine

Nothing enchants me more than observing the architecture of the places I visit. It is an experience that fills the eyes and beautifies the soul!

Mariana Gil

The first and primordial architecture is geography.

Paulo Archias Mendes da Rocha

In architecture, less is more only when more is too much.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing in architecture is by chance. Everything has a reason, a reason and an intention. Architecture is a complex study.

Mariana Gil

A good architecture is nothing more than a project that boldly meets the client’s needs, according to the region in which it is inserted.

Gustavo Penna

The most important thing is not architecture, but life, friends and this unfair world that we must change.

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is above all construction. But, construction conceived with the primary purpose of ordering and organizing the space for a certain purpose and aiming at a certain intention.

Lucio Costa