Architecture is the art of studying how to waste space. Architecture begins at the end of the project. -John Ruskin
Architects must be great sculptors and painters. If he is not a sculptor and painter, he can only be regarded as a builder. -I.M. Pei
Form is just an understanding of the differences between things. ..... Take a little from it, and the form will be destroyed. ..... Design is an exercise, or an entity composed of cognitive forms. For example, if you consider the so-called "spoon", you will think of a container and a handle. Take away the container, and there is only a sword-like thing left. When the handle is removed, it becomes a cup. Put them in one place and they become a spoon. However, "spoon" is not a spoon, but a form. A spoon? It can be made of silver, wood or paper-it becomes a spoon, which is the design. ..... This can be analogized to houses and anything we make. -louis kahn
In my opinion, a great building must start from an unmeasurable condition, and when it is designed, it must go through all measurable means, and finally it must be unmeasurable. The only way to build a house, that is, the only way to make the building present, is through measurable means. You must obey the laws of nature. A certain amount of bricks, construction methods and engineering techniques are all necessary. In the end, the building has become a part of life, and it has an immeasurable temperament and a living spirit. -louis kahn
In the past, I thought there were objects without gravity, but now I can be sure that buildings are weightless and can float. -Zaha Hadid
There should be some empirical connection between the building and the base, a metaphysical connection and a poetic connection! -Steven Holl
Streets are both architectural and planning issues. ..... Buildings also involve streets. Today's streets do not reflect the "order" of their activities. Streets all look the same, hardly reflecting the activities they serve. Street design is the activity of designing streets. -louis kahn
A city in an old eastern country will be greatly distressed in terms of cultural expression and aesthetics if it completely loses its artistic characteristics in architecture. -Liang sicheng
if the room is isolated from nature? It's like a grave. I.M. Pei "Before the architect made a beehive out of beeswax, he had already made it up in his mind. The result obtained at the end of the labor process has already existed in the concept of labor at the beginning of the labor process, so it has already existed conceptually. " -Marx's Das Kapital
We should put the great benefits of society first, and architects should take the whole society as the biggest owner, which should be the pursuit of every architect. -He Jingtang
Architectural design can't only focus on one of its own designs? But in harmony with the style of the whole city. -Zhang Kaiji Architecture is solidified music. -Schelling (or Beethoven)
Architecture, which is the highest art, has achieved Platonic sublimity, mathematical laws, philosophical thoughts and a sense of harmony generated by emotional coordination. This is the purpose of architecture. -le corbusier
Architecture is a scientific art that uses structure to express ideas. -F. L. Wright
If a city in an old eastern country completely loses its artistic characteristics in architecture, it will be very sad in terms of cultural expression and aesthetics. Because this fact obviously represents the decline of our culture, as for the phenomenon of extinction. -Liang Sicheng
The personality of China architecture is the personality of our nation, that is, a special part of my art and thought, not only in the material method of its structure itself. —— Liang Sicheng