Architecture Quote by Alain de Botton

“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected…

— Alain de Botton

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price

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

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make…

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v…

— Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions…

— Lebbeus Woods

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

— Zaha Hadid

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

Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to…

— Mario Botta