I make no special difference between architecture and…

Home is where you hang your architect.

— Clare Boothe Luce

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

— El Lissitzky

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a…

— David Chipperfield

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

— John Mercer Johnson

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

— Tadao Ando

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

— Michelangelo

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

— Mark Wigley

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness…

— Oscar Niemeyer

People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to…

— Tom Kundig

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter,…

— Zaha Hadid