Applied arts Quote by Peter Clewes

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

— Jonathan Meades

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

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

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

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

— Samuel

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people…

— Frank Gehry