Famous Quotes

"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."

Arthur Erickson on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Arthur Erickson

• "With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

• "Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."

• "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."

• "The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."

• "Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."