“建筑是凝固的音乐。”——歌德
I call architecture frozen music.–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
建筑开始于两块砖被仔细地连接在一起。——密斯·凡德罗
Architecture starts when you carefully put two
bricks together. There is begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

建筑是记录古往今来社会状况的印刷机。——摩根夫人
Architecture is the printing press which gives
a history to the state of society of all ages.
——LADY MORGAN, attributed, Day's Collacon 建筑是有人居住的雕塑。——康斯坦丁·布朗库西
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi

建筑是光线下形状正确、绝妙、又神奇的游戏。——勒·柯布西耶
Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent
of forms assembled in the light. – Le Corbusier 建筑是价值观的体现。——诺曼·福斯特
Architecture is an expression of values. – Norman Foster

建筑是对真理的追求。——路易斯·康
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn
没有表现出宁静的建筑作品是误入歧途。——路易斯·巴拉干
Any work of architecture which does not express
serenity is a mistakes. – Luis Barragan

建筑的一大美丽之处在于，每一次它都像是重新开始的生命。——伦佐·皮亚诺
One of the great beauties of architecture
is that each time it is like life starting
all over again. – Renzo Piano 建筑不是关于空间，而是关于时间。——维托
Architecture is not about space but about time. – Vito Acconel

我相信人们的生活方式在一定程度上可以由建筑来指导。——安藤忠雄
I believe that the way people live
can be directed a little by architecture. – Tadao Ando
新的情况每每出现，新的建筑便被需要。——让·努维尔
Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

建筑基本上是某种东西的容器。我希望他们更喜欢的不是茶杯，而是茶。——谷口吉生
Architecture is basically a container of something.
I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup,
but the tea.- Yoshio Taniguchi
建筑是一个时代的意志转化为空间。-密斯·凡·德·罗

生活就是建筑，建筑是生活的镜子。——贝聿铭
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. – I.M. Pei
建筑是关于幸福的。人们想在一个空间里感觉良好。建筑提供庇护，同时提供舒适。——扎哈·哈迪德

建筑，在所有艺术中，是对灵魂作用最缓慢，但也是最肯定的一种艺术。——欧内斯特
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly,
but the most surely, on the soul.- Ernest Dimnet

建筑是庇护所。伟大的建筑是关于空间的设计，它包含、拥抱、提升或激励着空间中的那个人。 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, speech, 1975