I’m working on a school of architecture in China. It’s rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I’m so pleased that they asked me. – Michael Graves
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. – Peter Zumthor
In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn’t hold up. – Frank Gehry
I don’t believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: ‘So what else is new?’ – Peter Eisenman
Mies van der Rohe’s architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. – Charles Jencks
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. – Enid Nemy
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. – Philip Treacy
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. – David Allan Coe
It’s not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. – Frank Gehry
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. – Peter Zumthor
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. – Preston Sturges
I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. – Charlie Rose
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. – Martin Filler
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. – Daniel Libeskind
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in ‘Post and Beam,’ there is something arresting in a setting… the building behind the Cathedral. – Edith Pearlman
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore. – Frank Gehry
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. – Philip Johnson
In the ’60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. – Christian de Portzamparc
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. – Mukesh Ambani
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
People wouldn’t know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them. – Patti Smith
Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I’d just do theater on the side. – Michael Lomenda
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. – Michael Graves
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into – after all, you haven’t any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You’d be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line – how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. – Philip Johnson
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. – Martin Filler
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we’re making is something that intrigues me very much. – Michael Arad