Famous sayings of architectural classics

the goal of architecture is to create perfection, that is, to create the most beautiful benefits.

Bruno Taut, Modern Architecture

But it is more powerful to say that architecture survives because it is art and it transcends practicality.

Gio Ponti, in practice of architecture

The passion of an architect can create miracles from hard stones.

-Le Corbusier

I believe in emotional architecture. The life of an architecture is its beauty. This is very important for human beings. If there are many solutions to a problem, the one that conveys beauty and emotion to users is architecture.

-Louis? Balakan

architecture is an art to study how to waste space.

(Architecture is the art of how to waste space)

-Philip Johnson

The building begins at the end of the project.

(Architecture begins where engineering ends)

-Walter Gropius n architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, He can only be a builder.)

-John Ruskin

The relationship between space and form is the essence of architectural art and architectural science

An architect must be a great sculptor and painter. If he is not a sculptor and painter, he can only be regarded as a builder

(no person who is not a great sculptor or painter, Can be a-I.M. Pei

Architecture is a Form of social art

-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 formed by 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 certain spoon can be made of silver, wood or paper, and become a certain spoon. This is the design. ...... this can be analogized to houses and anything we make

-Louis Kahn A great building, in my opinion, 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 {Quiet and Light}

In the past, I believed that there were weightless objects, 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

thinks that it's a device/when it's useless/useful /

chisels a household as a room/when it's useless/useful/

So it's beneficial/useless/

——— Lao Tzu

Let the light do the design. I often do odd jobs, that's why. -Lu Xun

Architecture is a history book written in stone-Hugo

Architecture is solidified music-Goethe

Street is both an architectural problem and a planning problem. ..... 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

Decoration is evil! -Mr. Ruth

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. -Liang sicheng

"If the room is cut off from nature, it will be like a grave." I.m. Pei

"LESS IS MORE "and" Less is more "The architect Mies Vandero

" Man is the measure of all things "-Vitruvius.

" Before the architect made a beehive with beeswax, he made it 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

He Jingtang's famous saying: 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.

"Architecture is a scientific art that uses structure to express ideas"-F. L。 Wright

The best architecture is that we are deep in it, but we don't know where nature ends and art begins.

-Lin Yutang

"Doctors can bury their mistakes, but architects have to live with them"

-Architect I.M. Pei

"Form comes from function"-American architect Sullivan

"Show me your city, and I can tell what this city pursues culturally." -Ilir, a world-renowned planner and architect? Sha Lining

"The building itself should be like what was born in the soil." -

"When technology has achieved its true mission, it will be sublimated into art" is a famous saying of German architect Mies.

Zhang Kaiji, an architect, has a famous saying: "Architectural design should be in harmony with the style of the whole city, rather than just one design of its own."

"If we look at this building from the designer's point of view, it represents the height of contemporary architectural technology; If we look at this building from the perspective of residents, it is full of warmth and affection. No matter what aspect, it guides everyone to make the transition from family to community ...

Without language, we can't talk. It is a communication tool. Without language, we can't express our thoughts. In this sense, it can be further said that language determines how we express our thoughts. … This is an incredible and ridiculous situation: we are wasting a lot of heritage, because we avoid the responsibility of reinterpreting it and enabling it to communicate with each other. The days when we completely forget the architectural language are not far off. -Bruno Xavi

If flowers, trees, running water, light and wind can be extracted from nature according to people's own wishes, then the world will be close to heaven.------------Anten

Civilization has changed human housing, but it has not changed people in it at the same time.

—— Thoreau's Walden

If there is nothing, there is room for it. "-Lao Tzu

is high enough to keep wet, cold at the side and frost, snow and rain on the floor.

-Mozi

Architecture is solidified music.

-Schelling (or Beethoven)

Music is a flowing building.

-Hauptmann

The plane contains the essence of feeling. ..... le corbusier's

style is the harmony of principles, which gives life to all works of an era, and it comes from the spirit of individuality. Our time is establishing its own style every day. Unfortunately, our eyes can't recognize it yet ..... le corbusier

architecture, which is the highest art, has achieved Platonic loftiness, mathematical laws, philosophical thoughts and a sense of harmony generated by emotional coordination. This is the purpose of architecture. ..... le corbusier

Passion can be made into drama with hard stones. ..... le corbusier

Decoration is a sin

-Luo

There are thousands of spacious buildings, which greatly protect the world, and all the poor people are happy-Du Fu

"The urgent task for China architects is to explore a kind of architectural form, which is not only within our limited physical reach, but also respects our own culture."