Architecture Quote by Rem Koolhaas

The future of architecture is culture.

— Philip Johnson

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would…

— Tadao Ando

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

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

— Ma Yansong

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that…

— Amartya Sen

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism,…

— David Simon

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

— Kenzo Tange

For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because,…

— Martin Jacques

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

— Li Keqiang

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people…

— Frank Gehry