Architecture Quote by Mark Wigley

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

— Alvar Aalto

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly…

— Martin Filler

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

— Oscar Wilde

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

— John Ruskin

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

— Elizabeth Diller

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

— Mary Wigman

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

— Louis Kahn

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

— Peter Eisenman

I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable.

— Santiago Calatrava

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti