I will never fix my architectural style and never be…

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

“An architectural style is a coordinated set of architectural constraints that restricts the roles/features of architectural elements and the allowed relationships among those elements…

— Anonymous

“I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural style of…

— W.G. Sebald

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

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

“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

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