“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” – Daniel Libeskind
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.” – Louis Kahn
“In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.” – Emilio Ambasz
“Form ever follows function.” – Louis Henry Sullivan
“A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.” – Renzo Piano
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” – Frank Gehry
“Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.” – John M. Johansen
“I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.” – Tadao Ando
“It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.” – Charles Eames
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” – Renzo Piano
“To create, one must first question everything.” – Eileen Gray
“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.” – Yoshio Taniguchi
“Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.” – Luis Barragán
“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.” – John Ruskin
“Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong.” – Buckminster Fuller
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” – Norman Foster