Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Quote by Walter Gropius

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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where...

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where...

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but...

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

An architect is the drawer of dreams

An architect is the drawer of dreams

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to...

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.

A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.