Action Quote by Lebbeus Woods

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

— Lebbeus Woods

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

Architecture is politics.

— Mitchell Kapor

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

— Spiro Kostof

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and…

— Thom Mayne

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 a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and…

— Elizabeth Diller

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 a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment…

— Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It…

— Bjarke Ingels