To build means to make architecture real on the borders of…

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

— Marc Ecko

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

— Fabiola Gianotti

The world's geography is not realistic. Geography is not real. Borders are only closed to people but they are open to products. There is…

— Alex Abreu

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

— Thom Mayne

I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up…

— Michael Graves

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very…

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

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

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece…

— Raimund Abraham

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

— Aldo Rossi

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We…

— Ma Yansong