“Architecture tries to preserve body heat and ritual.” – – Hans Hollein [1934-2014] Austrian postmodern architect and designer
![Hans Hollein in 1976](https://sogwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Hans_Hollein_Architect_Designer-235x300.jpg)
Hans Hollein in 1976
“Architecture is the knowing, correct, and magnificent play of forms beneath the sun.” – – Le Corbusier [1887-1965] Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer
![Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in 1933, better known as Le Corbusier](https://sogwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Le_Corbusier_1933.jpg)
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in 1933, better known as Le Corbusier
“Architecture needs no explanation, and its reason-for-being comes with being built and inhabited. Too close a reliance on the verbal explanation reduces the building to the status of a footnote.” – – Robert McCarter [b. about 1953] American architect, author and educator
![Robert McCarter](https://sogwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mccarter.jpg)
Robert McCarter
“Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.” – – Geoffrey Jellicoe [1900-1996] English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer and author
![Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe](https://sogwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Geoffrey-jellicoe.jpg)
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” – – Phillip Johnson [1906-2005] American architect advocating the the modernist then the postmodernist idiom
![Philip Cortelyou Johnson](https://sogwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PJs-back-245x300.jpeg)
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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