Business Quote by Helen Keller

With destruction comes renovation.

— Wally Lamb

“A ruin is an accidental aesthetic object. If it becomes beautiful, this was certainly not the intention. A ruin is not constructed or maintained.…

— Edouard Levé

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

— Helmut Jahn

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

— Kenzo Tange

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

— Harry Seidler

Good design and talented architects can transform an ugly house on a relatively accessible and achievable budget.

— George Clarke

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

— James Polshek

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against…

— Hilaire Belloc