Approach Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

— Zaha Hadid

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of…

— Rem Koolhaas

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

— Santiago Calatrava

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

— David Chipperfield

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

— James Polshek

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

— Frank Gehry