Architecture Quote by Claes Oldenburg

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They…

— Herbert Muschamp

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for…

— Frank Gehry

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all…

— Santiago Calatrava

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

— Toyo Ito

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

— Virginia Postrel

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

— Christo

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in…

— Zaha Hadid

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the…

— Michael Mandelbaum