Ability Quote by Thom Mayne

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to…

— Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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 about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

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

— I. M. Pei

“Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.”

— Vitruvius Pollio

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

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

— Kenzo Tange

The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really…

— David Adjaye