Appeals Quote by Kenzo Tange

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired…

— Victor Hugo

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part…

— Harry Seidler

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is…

— Oscar Niemeyer

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how…

— Thom Mayne

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

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Moshe Safdie

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

— Harry Seidler

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei