Bigger Quote by Ai Weiwei

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify,…

— Zaha Hadid

I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive solution you…

— Suman Rai

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are…

— K.P. Yohannan

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

— Elizabeth Diller

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to…

— Jacque Fresco

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture…

— David Chipperfield

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

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki