Architectural Quote by Jaquelin T. Robertson

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with…

— Moshe Safdie

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very…

— Ma Yansong

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style…

— Thomas Heatherwick

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and…

— John Ruskin

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to…

— Jacque Fresco

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe…

— Cesar Pelli

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our…

— David Chipperfield

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of…

— Evan Sharp