Cities Quote by Ai Weiwei

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but…

— Cesar Pelli

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

— Miguel McKelvey

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me…

— Frank Gehry

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

— Jane Jacobs

Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and…

— Anna Wintour

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.

— Joe Gebbia

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it…

— Daniel Libeskind

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe…

— Cesar Pelli