Architecture Quote by Renzo Piano

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects.…

— Ai Weiwei

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want…

— Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions…

— Lebbeus Woods

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody,…

— Anonymous

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada

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 is to make us know and remember who we are.

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

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

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei