All Quotes

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
‐‐ Toyo Ito

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
‐‐ Bjarke Ingels

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

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

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.
‐‐ Pedro Reyes

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

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

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful?
‐‐ Cesar Pelli

Architecture aims at Eternity.
‐‐ Christopher Wren

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
‐‐ Frank Stella

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
‐‐ Christian de Portzamparc

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
‐‐ David Chipperfield

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
‐‐ Luis Barragan

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
‐‐ Nate Lowman

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
‐‐ Thom Mayne

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
‐‐ Thom Mayne

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
‐‐ Antoine Predock

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
‐‐ Vitruvius

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
‐‐ Julia Morgan

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
‐‐ Annabelle Selldorf

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Architecture is always political.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is art, nothing else.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
‐‐ Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
‐‐ Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

Architecture is definitely a political act.
‐‐ Peter Eisenman

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid