Above and beyond Quote by John Ruskin

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the…

— Michael Graves

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

— Rem Koolhaas

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

— Jonathan Meades

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

— Toyo Ito

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it,

— Anonymous

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes

Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function…

— Charles Correa

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture,…

— Renzo Piano