Architecture Quote by Ma Yansong

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

We have to base architecture on the environment.

— Toyo Ito

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so…

— Helmut Jahn

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

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

— Harry Seidler

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

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

— Samuel

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

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren't going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They're not going to be…

— Miguel McKelvey

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

— Bjarke Ingels