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“Creating Architecture that is both modern and undeniably Filipino.” ― Leandro Locsin

“Architecture must respond to local conditions.” “I design Filipino” “Architecture must be true to itself, its land, and its people. ““Three factors make architecture truly Filipino, Filipino values, Philippine climate and the use of indigenous materials” ― Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa

“The structure should not only look good but must also be made well.” ― Carlos Santos Viola

“The structure must be well oriented.”

― Caesar Homero Concio

“Buildings

should be planned with austerity in mind and its stability forever as the aim of true architecture, that buildings must be progressive, simple in design but dignified, true to a purpose without resorting to an applied set of aesthetics and should eternally recreate truth." “A truly great work of architecture must express harmony, simplicity, organic beauty, natural integrity, and beauty.” ― Pablo Antonio

“A Pragmatic Approach to Architecture”

― Gilbert Yu

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.” “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood” ― Daniel Burnham

“Art and Architecture, the new unity”

― Walter Gropius

“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.”

― I. M Pei

“Everyone used to want to be star architects. That’s no longer the case.”

― Shigeru Ban

“I’ve said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to saved the world” “Buildings can have a beautiful silence.” ― Peter Zumthor

“Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.”

― Eduardo Suoto de Moura

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” ― Frank Gehry

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

“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.”

“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.” ― Louis Kahn

“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.” “Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

― Antonio Gaudi

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” “A house is a machine for living in.”

― Le Corbusier

“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.” ― Yoshio Taniguchi

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” “Less is more” “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” ― Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” “Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”

― Alvar Aalto

“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”

“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” ― Daniel Libeskind

“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.”

― Richard Rogers

“Form follows function.”

― Louis Sullivan

“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”

― Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.” ― Toyo Ito

“Architecture is invention.”

― Oscar Niemeyer

“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.”

― Kenzo Tange

“Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.”

― Zaha Hadid

“Each new situation requires a new architecture. ”

― Jean Nouvel

“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. ” ― Tadao Ando

“There is a rumor that I can’t draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine.” ― Jørn Utzon

“I may not be the most interesting architect, but I’m still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. ” ― David Chipperfield

“Each material has its own shadow. The shadow of stone is not the same as that of a brittle autumn leaf. The shadow penetrates the material and radiates its message. “

― Sverre Fern

“The life of an Architect is one of fight: fight against the ugliness.”

― Massimo Vignelli

“When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, “The next one.”

― Emilio Ambas

“I tell my students: you must put into your work first effort, second love, and third suffering.” ― Glenn Murcutt

“There are many architects who aren’t really aware of their own patterns, just like most people don’t know their patterns in private. We find that a really exciting theme because architecture and psychology suddenly become very close. ” ― Jacques Herzog

“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”

― Renzo Piano

“I don't believe in morality in architecture.” “In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.” ― Michael Graves

“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.” ― John Portman

“My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.”

“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”

― Julia Morgan

“As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.” ― Michael Arad

“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.” “The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present”. ― Adolf Loos

“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.”

― Arne Jacobsen

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”

― Philip Johnson

“Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.”

― Arthur Erickson

“Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.”

― Harry Seidler

“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.”

― Rem Koolhaas

“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces wellbeing.”

― Luis Barragan...