Able Quote by Helmut Jahn

I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive solution you…

— Suman Rai

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is…

— Moshe Safdie

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain…

— Richard Rogers

I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity…

— Shigeru Ban

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

— Leon Krier

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

— Louis Kahn

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But…

— Arne Jacobsen

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It…

— Daniel Libeskind