- Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
- Coco Chanel on Architecture
- First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
- Gustav Stickley on Architecture
- For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
- James Rouse on Architecture
- Form follows function.
- Louis Sullivan on Architecture
- Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
- Richard Rogers on Architecture
- French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.
- Stephen Gardiner on Architecture
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