Architecture Quote by Robert Moses

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

— E. M. Forster

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but…

— Cesar Pelli

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

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

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your…

— Oscar Wilde

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

— Rem Koolhaas

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture,…

— Renzo Piano

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

— Philip Johnson