Architecture Quote by Oscar Niemeyer

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

— Joseph Pilates

We are the architects of our own happiness

— Gerald Causse

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the…

— Alain de Botton

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and…

— John Ruskin

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is…

— John Updike

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness…

— Oscar Niemeyer

“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected…

— Alain de Botton

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

— Harry Seidler

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter,…

— Zaha Hadid

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a…

— Frank Gehry

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

— David Chipperfield