Architect Quote by Martin Filler

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that…

— Rafael Vinoly

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

— Ma Yansong

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

— Jonathan Barnbrook

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the…

— Michael Graves

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society,…

— Peter Clewes

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with…

— Herbert Simon

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure…

— Martin Filler

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe…

— Cesar Pelli

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena… But when they come to the aesthetics…

— Carl von Clausewitz

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

— Renzo Piano

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not…

— Prince Charles