Architecture Quote by Eero Saarinen

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

— Frank Gehry

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

— Edith Sitwell

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

— Peter Eisenman

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 believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

— Tadao Ando

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

— David Chipperfield

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for…

— Alvar Aalto

“I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit,” Eliot said. “Though that would…

— Lev Grossman

“Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.”

— Vitruvius Pollio