Creating Architecture that is both

modern and undeniably Filipino.

Leandro Locsin

Architecture must respond to local

conditions.
I design Filipino
Architecture must be true to itself, its
land, and its people.
Three factors make architecture
truly Filipino, Filipino
values, Philippine climate and the use
of indigenous materials
Francisco Bobby Maosa

The structure should not only look

good but must also be made well.
Carlos Santos Viola

The structure must be well oriented.

Caesar Homero Concio

Buildings

should be planned with austerity

in mind and its stability forever as the aim of
true architecture, that buildings must be
progressive, simple in design but dignified,
true to a purpose without resorting to an
applied set of aesthetics and should eternally
recreate truth."
A truly great work of architecture must
express harmony, simplicity, organic beauty,
natural integrity, and beauty.
Pablo Antonio

A Pragmatic Approach to
Architecture

Gilbert Yu

Make big plans; aim high in hope and

work, remembering that a noble logical
diagram once recorded will not die.
Make no little plans; they have no magic
to stir men's blood
Daniel Burnham

Art and Architecture, the new unity

Walter Gropius

I believe that architecture is a

pragmatic art. To become art it must be
built on a foundation of necessity.

I. M Pei

Everyone used to want to be star

architects. Thats no longer the
case.

Shigeru Ban

Ive said goodbye to the

overworked notion that architecture
has to saved the world
Buildings can have a beautiful
silence.
Peter Zumthor

Drawing architecture is a
schizoid act: it involves reducing
the world to a piece of paper.

Eduardo Suoto de Moura

Architecture should speak of its time

and place, but yearn for
timelessness.
Frank Gehry

We are called to be architects of the

future, not its victims.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A great building must begin with the

unmeasurable, must go through
measurable means when it is being
designed and in the end must be
unmeasurable.

Architecture is the reaching out for the

truth.
Louis Kahn

Color in certain places has the great

value of making the outlines and
structural planes seem more energetic.
Those who look for the laws of Nature
as a support for their new works
collaborate with the creator.

Antonio Gaudi

Architecture is the learned game,

correct and magnificent, of forms
assembled in the light.
A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Architecture is basically a container

of something. I hope they will enjoy
not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture is the will of an epoch

translated into space.
Less is more
Architecture starts when you
carefully put two bricks together.
There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but

an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines.
Organic architecture seeks
superior sense of use and a finer
sense of comfort, expressed in
organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Building art is a synthesis of life in

materialized form. We should try to
bring in under the same hat not a
splintered way of thinking, but all in
harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

Cities are the greatest creations

of humanity.
To provide meaningful
architecture is not to parody
history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind

Form follows profit is the

aesthetic principle of our
times.

Richard Rogers

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

Nothing requires the architect's

care more than the due proportions
of buildings.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Architects have made architecture

too complex. We need to simplify it
and use a language that everyone
can understand.
Toyo Ito

Architecture is invention.

Oscar Niemeyer

Architects today tend to depreciate

themselves, to regard themselves
as no more than just ordinary
citizens without the power to reform
the future.

Kenzo Tange

Architecture is how the person

places herself in the space. Fashion
is about how you place the object
on the person.

Zaha Hadid

Each new situation requires a

new architecture.

Jean Nouvel

You cannot simply put

something new into a place. You
have to absorb what you see
around you, what exists on the
land, and then use that knowledge
along with contemporary thinking
to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando

There is a rumor that I cant

draw and never could. This is
probably because I work so much
with models. Models are one of
the most beautiful design tools,
but I still do the finest drawings
you can imagine.
Jrn Utzon

I may not be the most

interesting architect, but Im still
out there and have maintained
some position of integrity.
David Chipperfield

Each material has its own

shadow. The shadow of stone is
not the same as that of a brittle
autumn
leaf.
The
shadow
penetrates the material and
radiates its message.

Sverre Fern

The life of an Architect is one

of fight: fight against the
ugliness.

Massimo Vignelli

When an architect is asked

what his best building is, he
usually answers, The next
one.

Emilio Ambas

I tell my students: you must

put into your work first
effort, second love, and third
suffering.
Glenn Murcutt

There are many architects who

arent really aware of their own
patterns, just like most people
dont know their patterns in
private. We find that a really
exciting
theme
because
architecture
and
psychology
suddenly become very close.
Jacques Herzog

One of the great beauties

of architecture is that each
time, it is like life starting
all over again.
Renzo Piano

I don't believe in morality in

architecture.
In any architecture, there is an
equity between the pragmatic
function
and
the
symbolic
function.
Michael Graves

Architects in the past have tended

to concentrate their attention on the
building as a static object. I believe
dynamics are more important: the
dynamics
of
people,
their
interaction
with
spaces
and
environmental
condition.
John Portman

My buildings will be my legacy...

they will speak for me long after I'm
gone.
Architecture is a visual art, and the
buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan

As architects we are often involved

in
the
concrete-steel-and-glass
aspect of it, but cities are social
structures, and to be involved in
imagining the future of cities and the
type of relationships and the types of
places
that
we're
making
is
something that intrigues me very
much.
Michael Arad

Architecture arouses sentiments in

man. The architect's task therefore, is
to make those sentiments more
precise.
The work of art shows people new
directions and thinks of the future.
The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos

Proportions are what makes the

old Greek temples classic in their
beauty. They are like huge blocks,
from which the air has been literally
hewn out between the columns.
Arne Jacobsen

All architecture is shelter, all

great architecture is the design of
space that contains, cuddles,
exalts, or stimulates the persons
in
that
space.

Philip Johnson

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.
Arthur Erickson

Architecture
is
not
an
inspirational business, it's a
rational procedure to do sensible
and hopefully beautiful things;
that's
all.

Harry Seidler

People can inhabit anything. And

they can be miserable in anything
and ecstatic in anything. More and
more I think that architecture has
nothing to do with it. Of course,
that's
both
liberating
and
alarming.

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is an art when one

consciously or unconsciously
creates aesthetic emotion in the
atmosphere and when this
environment
produces
wellbeing.

Luis Barragan