Famous Quotes

"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."

Luis Barragan 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 Luis Barragan

• "I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one."

• "Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

• "Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all."

• "Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human."

• "A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy."