Hands Quote by Moshe Safdie

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as…

— Walter Gropius

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group…

— Curtis W. Fentress

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect…

— Leon Krier

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

— Greg Lynn

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects.…

— Ai Weiwei

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

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

— David Adjaye

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to…

— Renzo Piano

We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

— Richard Meier

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations…

— Cesar Pelli

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

— Santiago Calatrava