Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is…

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very…

— Ma Yansong

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through…

— Martin Filler

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece…

— Raimund Abraham

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both…

— Vito Acconci

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

— Aldo Rossi

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We…

— Ma Yansong

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

— Frei Otto

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

— Louis Kahn

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

— Louis Kahn

Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“It is unnatural to fear something natural.”

— Steven Magee

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

— Lucy Freeman