Architecture Quote by Garrett M. Graff

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in…

— Zaha Hadid

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

— Santiago Calatrava

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the…

— Richard Rogers

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So,…

— Daniel Libeskind

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that…

— Toyo Ito

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

— Geoff Lawton