Always Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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 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

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality…

— Greg Lynn

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture…

— Renzo Piano

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

— Peter Zumthor

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

— Moshe Safdie

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry.…

— James Polshek

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes