Architecture Quote by Santiago Calatrava

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 special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

— Ma Yansong

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how…

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

— Claudio Silvestrin

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

— Arne Jacobsen

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

— I. M. Pei

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but…

— Zaha Hadid

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and…

— John Ruskin

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It…

— Ben van Berkel