Architecture Quote by Justin Cartwright

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always…

— Santiago Calatrava

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

— William S. Burroughs

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is…

— Thom Mayne

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

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

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer…

— Rem Koolhaas

“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a romantic one;…

— Alain de Botton

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

— Kenzo Tange