Activity Quote by Peter Zumthor

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

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Our business has always been to create the structures, the environment, for people to do a variety of activities, not for us to conduct…

— Robert Bigelow

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no…

— Maya Lin

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

— Greg Lynn

A building is a very interesting frame. You always get a sort of sample of different people inside a building.

— Hito Steyerl

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

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant…

— Elizabeth Diller

When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to…

— Vito Acconci

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do…

— Richard Ford

The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being…

— David Adjaye