Architecture Quote by Hugh Dalton

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

— Steven Holl

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement -…

— Martin Filler

But then architects don't build their own houses.

— Damien Hirst

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

— Brian Foote

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range…

— Michael Ende

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

It scares me that the majority of people tend to compromise on structural, mechanical and efficiency items rather than shiny big ticket items, resulting…

— Bryan Baeumler

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

— Frank Gehry

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

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's…

— Peter Marino