Architecture Quote by K.P. Yohannan

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail…

— James Howard Kunstler

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is…

— Ai Weiwei

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build…

— Buenaventura Durruti

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then…

— Minoru Yamasaki

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more…

— Timothy Keller

It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to…

— Buenaventura Durruti

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

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because…

— Cesar Pelli