Famous Quotes

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• "Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."

• "Less is more."

• "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

• "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

• "True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."