Architecture Quote by Rem Koolhaas

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

— Dieter Rams

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 does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life…

— Oscar Niemeyer

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

— Frank Gehry

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

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

— Helmut Jahn

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and…

— Gottfried Bohm

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Jonathan Meades

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 is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

— Alvar Aalto