Act Quote by Steven Holl

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

— Emilio Ambasz

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

— Spiro Kostof

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

— Santiago Calatrava

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and…

— Barbara Kruger

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

— Samuel

I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university.…

— Keller Easterling

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

For me, architecture is a social act.

— David Adjaye

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment…

— Thom Mayne

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

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

— Ma Yansong

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and…

— Thom Mayne