Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is politics.

— Mitchell Kapor

Architecture is invention.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions…

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People…

— Christopher Wren

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

— Alvar Aalto

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

— Juhani Pallasmaa

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Walt Whitman