An architect is the drawer of dreams

An architect is the drawer of dreams

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

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

Ah, to build, to build!
That is the noblest of all the arts.

Ah, to build, to build!
That is the noblest of all the arts.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.

There will never be great architects or great architecture
without great patrons.

There will never be great architects or great architecture
without great patrons.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

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

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready before it was brought thither: read more

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither
hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it
was in building.