Architect Quote by Frank Gehry

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe…

— Cesar Pelli

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of…

— Bruce Sterling

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but…

— Cesar Pelli

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and…

— Gottfried Bohm

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the…

— Jonathan Meades

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

— Jane Jacobs

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always…

— Leon Krier

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like…

— Bjarke Ingels