Accusation Quote by Fritz Todt

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.…

— Fritz Todt

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society,…

— Peter Clewes

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore…

— James Howard Kunstler

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

— Ma Yansong

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the…

— David Chipperfield

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

— Alvar Aalto

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

— Martin Filler

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

— Elizabeth Diller

The future of architecture is culture.

— Philip Johnson

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

— James Dyson