Architecture Quote by Eduardo Souto de Moura

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

— Claudio Silvestrin

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

— Dieter Rams

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price

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

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is…

— John Updike

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both…

— Vito Acconci

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer