You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

— Ludwig von Mises

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

— Louis Susman

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

— Bernard Tschumi

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine…

— Michael Heizer

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

— Vittorio Gregotti

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious…

— Martin Rees

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

— Douglas Tompkins

“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely…

— Alain de Botton

I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans.…

— Gerhard Richter

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

— Curtis W. Fentress

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect…

— Jimenez Lai

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

I am but an architectural composer.

— Alexander Jackson Davis

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose.…

— James Rouse

I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes…

— Greg Wise