Architecture Quote by David Byrne

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work…

— Lewis Mumford

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.…

— Aldo Rossi

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash…

— Herb Caen

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that…

— Louis Kahn

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

— Jaime Lerner

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out…

— Olivier Theyskens

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos…

— Nathan Glazer

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind