Architecture Quote by Alain de Botton

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture,…

— Renzo Piano

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is…

— John Updike

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil…

— Frank Stella

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

— David Chipperfield

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

— Jonathan Meades

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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Walter Gropius

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle…

— Cameron Sinclair

“It started to go wrong quite early, my relationship with Architecture”

— Jeremy Till

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 is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler