Architecture Quote by Bernard Levin

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the…

— Jonathan Meades

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

— Toyo Ito

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and…

— Richard Meier

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

— Juhani Pallasmaa

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

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

— Frank Gehry

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people…

— Frank Gehry

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority…

— Lebbeus Woods