Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Quotes

The room is the beginning of architecture.

- Louis Kahn

Architect

· Estonia

• Architecture
• Rooms

Today, architecture is invention. It isn’t enough to just be rational – It must also be beautiful.

- Oscar Niemeyer

Architect

· Brazil

• Architecture
• Beautiful

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Architect

· USA

• Motivational

From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Architect

· Italy

• Healthy
• Water

Each material is only what we make it.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect

· Germany

• Materials

A man can do all things if he will.

- Leon Battista Alberti

Architect

· Italy

• Attitude
• Mindset

I never like things that don’t look nice. It’s really that simple.

- Annabelle Selldorf

Architect

· Germany

• Simple

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

- William Lethaby

Architect

· United Kingdom

• Art

My buildings don’t speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

- Thom Mayne

Architect

· USA

• Architecture
• Talking

If design is the first signal of human intention.

- William McDonough

Architect

• Design
• First
• Intention