Against Quote by Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by…

— Brian Foote

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit…

— I. M. Pei

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

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

— Tadao Ando

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

— Jimenez Lai