Architectural design Quote by Martin Filler

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it.…

— Frank Gehry

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

— Jonathan Meades

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

— Curtis W. Fentress

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

— Moshe Safdie

“The vital detail about the design is captured in the code. A well-written implementation should be transparent, revealing the model underlying it.”

— Eric Evans

“[...] you shouldn't be uneasy about any parts of the architecture. It shouldn't contain anything just to please the boss. It shouldn't contain anything…

— Steve McConnell

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

— Leonard Baskin

Good design should be honest.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

— Zaha Hadid

Design exists to serve some purpose.

— Paula Scher