Architect Quotes

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. ‘Think simples’ as my old master used to say – meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.