Architecture Quote by Leon Krier

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and…

— Gottfried Bohm

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in…

— Bjarke Ingels

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

— Frank Gehry

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

— Tadao Ando

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use…

— Tadao Ando

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

“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

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm