The task of the architectural project is to reveal…

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I…

— Emilio Ambasz

“In any Arthurian text, whether a rewriting, a translation or a complication of episodes, engages implicitly as well as explicitly with the surrounding context…

— Laura Chuchan Campbell

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and…

— Rem Koolhaas

“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to…

— Rem Koolhaas

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our…

— Ai Weiwei

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

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

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 am but an architectural composer.

— Alexander Jackson Davis

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

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

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