Abandoned Quote by Rem Koolhaas

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in…

— Mario Botta

I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture.

— Kate Herron

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was…

— Thomas Heatherwick

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance…

— Daniel Libeskind

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the…

— Max Walker

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the…

— Bjarke Ingels

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the…

— Oscar Niemeyer

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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, but…

— Zaha Hadid

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan,…

— Anne Waldman

As someone who lives with adult-onset asthma, I know how bad air quality in the capital has become. I want to be the greenest…

— Sadiq Khan

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