Accepting Quote by Renzo Piano

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote…

— Thomas Heatherwick

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

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not…

— Prince Charles

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to…

— Peter Marino

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that…

— Rafael Vinoly

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

— Jonathan Meades

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

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts…

— Thom Mayne

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil…

— Frank Stella

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

“… that architecture’s dependency, far from being its weakness, becomes its opportunity, with the architect acting as open-minded listener and feet-footed interpreter, collaborating in…

— Jeremy Till

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it…

— Philip Johnson