Architecture Quote by Amartya Sen

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

— Martin Filler

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

— Ma Yansong

Despite the best intentions, companies often become culturally dysfunctional. This occurs when leadership has a perception about the culture that conflicts with reality, or…

— Peter Levine

The future of architecture is culture.

— Philip Johnson

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

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

— Renzo Piano

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 forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence and the…

— Kengo Kuma

I think a great culture can look a lot of different ways. Sometimes it's guys that get along great and it's a good, solid,…

— Aaron Boone

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

— Ralph Erskine