Architecture Quote by Peter Zumthor

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so…

— Helmut Jahn

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

— Harry Seidler

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing.…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part…

— Harry Seidler

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

— Toyo Ito

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

— Nate Berkus

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

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is…

— Oscar Niemeyer

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

— Arne Jacobsen