A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
~ Nancy Banks-Smith

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
~ Colleen C. Barrett

''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
~ Stephen Bayley

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
~ Constantin Brancusi

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
~ Prince Of Wales Charles

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past.
~ Dan Cruickshank

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
~ Salvador Dali

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
~ Ralph Erskine

Don't fight forces, use them.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
~ Thomas Fuller

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
~ Walter Gropius

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
~ Walter Gropius

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
~ Benjamin Haydon

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
~ Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
~ Philip Johnson