Architecture Quote by Philip Johnson

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

— Ralph Nader

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the…

— Jane Jacobs

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of…

— Bruce Sterling

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

— Daniel Libeskind

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

— Bertrand Delanoe

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

And city plnenars the world over are beginning to rethink the role of the automobile, seeking ways to design cities for people, not cars.…

— Sabine

The greatest city in the history of the Earth. -Wes Mantooth

— Anchorman 2

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

— Rem Koolhaas

“The ambiguous role of the car crash needs no elaboration—apart from our own deaths, the car crash is probably the most dramatic event in…

— J.G. Ballard