Aesthetics Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes

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

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

“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

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a…

— Kenzo Tange

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

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

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne