Act Quote by Bernard Tschumi

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

I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests…

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it,

— Anonymous

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

— Bernard Tschumi

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

“What is forbidden is most desirable.”

— Tapan Ghosh

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually,…

— Annabelle Selldorf

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own…

— Peter Zumthor

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

— Michael Graves

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This…

— Mario Botta

It appears that the general consensus is that the more something is forbidden, the more people want to do it.

— Anonymous