Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.
Le Corbusier
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Philip Johnson
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
Dan Rice
Architecture is a social act and the material theatre of human activity.
Spiro Kostof
Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling:
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
“This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.”
Malcolm Miller
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a chaotic adventure. In other words, the utopian enterprise.”
Architecture is politics.
Mitchell Kapor
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
Henry Watton
Thermodynamics + Metaphor = Architecture
Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to operate on it.