Architecture Quote by Renzo Piano

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

— Jonathan Meades

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the…

— Alain de Botton

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

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

— David Chipperfield

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is…

— John Updike

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

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

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

— Peter Eisenman

“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to…

— Rem Koolhaas

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

— Frank Gehry