Architect Quote by Daniel Libeskind

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

— Jacque Fresco

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

— Park Won-soon

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose.…

— James Rouse

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to…

— Christopher Alexander

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and…

— Gottfried Bohm

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

— Molly O'Neill

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

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we…

— John Grierson

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

— Bill Bonner