Architect Quote by Moshe Safdie

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped…

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work…

— Jean Nouvel

There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is…

— Rem Koolhaas

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

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style…

— Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

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

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it…

— Philip Johnson

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to…

— Jacque Fresco

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that…

— Louis Kahn