Architecture Quote by David Chipperfield

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody,…

— Anonymous

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

— Stephen Gardiner

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and…

— John Ruskin

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it.…

— Thom Mayne

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

— Stephen Gardiner

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It…

— Daniel Libeskind

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects.…

— Ai Weiwei

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress