Architecture Quote by Jamie Lee Curtis

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time…

— I. M. Pei

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

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we…

— Richard Rogers

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

— David Chipperfield

“Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.”

— Beatriz Colomina

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as…

— Roger Waters

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

“architecture is a way of life”

— Barwa

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My…

— Jean Nouvel

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a…

— Frank Gehry

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

— Peter Eisenman

The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to…

— Shigeru Ban