Architecture Quote by Kenzo Tange

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling…

— Alain de Botton

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

— Adolf Loos

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly…

— Martin Filler

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a…

— Kenzo Tange

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one…

— Ma Yansong

“Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and…

— Rowan Moore

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

— Ralph Erskine