Architect Quote by Samuel Mockbee

As architects we have a responsibility to society

— Richard Rogers

“… architects are not acting for themselves but on behalf of others, and this means acting ethically. It is to ethics that we now turn.”

— Jeremy Till

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

— Carol Ross Barney

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands…

— John Ruskin

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling…

— Alain de Botton

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

— Walter Gropius

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

— Harry Seidler

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

— Ma Yansong