Z Bauer Architects

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

Louis Kahn

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Tadao Ando

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Louis Kahn

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

Louis Kahn

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."

Louis Kahn

"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."

Louis Kahn

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau

"An idea in action will make you money, but an idea in your mind is still just a dream."

Mike Litman

Success isn't about being the best. It's about always getting better.

Unknown Author

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, you need a team."

John Wooden

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

John Ruskin

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

Jim Rohn

"Life Is Action and Not Contemplation."

Goethe

"You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'"

Louis Kahn

"Even A Brick Wants to Be Something"

Louis Kahn

"I claim for architects the rights and liberties that painters and poets have held for so long."

Pancho Credes

“I never teach my pupils: I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

Albert Einstein

"The deeper the waters are, the more still they run"

Korean Proverb

“He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine dims his own light.
He who defines himself can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Знающий людей – разумен,знающий себя – просветлён.Побеждающий людей – силен,побеждающий себя – могущественен

«Дао-де-цзин», Аркадий Райкин

"Интуициа - способности человека строить образ и действовать с ним вместо реального предмета, получая в итоге те же самые результаты, что и в реальном предметном действии. Эта способность, по-видимому, является более фундаментальной формой мышления, чем способность оперировать знаками и символикой, языком в строгом смысле этого слова."

Э.В. Ильенков, "Психика человека под «лупой времени»"

"Вот искусство для того и нужно, чтобы сделать жизнь более ощутимой. Чтобы человек остановился, огляделся, задумался и вдруг восхитился чему-то, а от чего-то ужаснулся."

«Որքան ծառի վրա շատ բերք է լինում, այնքան նա խոնարհ է լինում»

Հայկական ասացվածք

"You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony."

Renzo Piano

"In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music."

Renzo Piano

"Great artists need great clients."

I. M. Pei

"Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition."

Frank Gehry

"If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing."

Frank Gehry

"I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing."

Frank Gehry

"If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything."

Frank Gehry

"The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that."

Frank Gehry

"As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown."

Norman Foster

"If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect."

Norman Foster

"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can affect the quality of life of the people."

Richard Rogers

"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."

Richard Rogers

"As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes."

Richard Rogers

"Art should be created for life, not for the museum."

Jean Nouvel

"Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement."

Jean Nouvel

"The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle."

Jean Nouvel

"Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it."

Rem Koolhaas

"All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark."

Rem Koolhaas

"A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others."

Zaha Hadid

"You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy, and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in."

Le Corbusier

"The 'styles' are a lie."

Le Corbusier

"African American music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle."

Le Corbusier

Keep away from architects who try to belittle your ambitions. Small architects always do that, but the really great architects make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Architecture is the embodiment of hope. Hope for our future. Hope for our children’s future. Hope for our future invoices.

Barack Obama

Great architecture is achieved by simply removing all the parts that are not needed. Like all the furniture.

Michaelangelo

The two most important days in your life are the day you become an architect and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Architecture is…
shaping spaces
sustainable design
creative collaboration
visionary thinking
elegant problem-solving
…to make lives better.

As a leading architect in Armenia, we take our clients on a supportive, holistic and collaborative journey from idea to realization, creating beautiful spaces that work.