Appearance Quote by Dean Koontz

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how…

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

“Architecture forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence and the…

— Kengo Kuma

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

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is…

— David Adjaye

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

— Juhani Pallasmaa

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect…

— Leon Krier

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make…

— Frank Gehry

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just…

— Alain de Botton