Architecture Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is…

— Moshe Safdie

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But…

— Arne Jacobsen

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult…

— Arne Jacobsen

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

— Harry Seidler

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and…

— John Ruskin

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

— Annabelle Selldorf

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

— Kenzo Tange

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so…

— Helmut Jahn