"A house is the core of your family life, in which you live, relax, and bring up your children. Its plan is pointed to suit your own specific routine of living, so it is functional according to your own ideas and demands of functionalism."
Royal Barry Wills
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the person in that space."
Phillip Johnson
"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."
Louis Kahn
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
Frank Llyod Wright
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task, therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
Adolf Loos
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
Frank Llyod Wright
"I don’t divide architecture, landscape, and gardening; to me they are one."
Luis Barragan
"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist."
Maya Lin
"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
Edwin Lutyens
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
Frank Gehry
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."