Age Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

— James Howard Kunstler

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They…

— Herbert Muschamp

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end…

— Martin Filler

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want…

— Bjarke Ingels

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to…

— Bernd Becher