Architecture Quote by Ma Yansong

A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring…

— Ma Yansong

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations:…

— Philip Johnson

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the…

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

— Santiago Calatrava

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very…

— Ma Yansong

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but…

— Zaha Hadid

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

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

— David Adjaye

We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at,…

— Will Gompertz

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

— Kenzo Tange

“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

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We…

— Ma Yansong