Architecture Quote by Thom Mayne

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their…

— Peter Clewes

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

— Jonathan Meades

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

— Oscar Niemeyer

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 is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

— Zaha Hadid

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture…

— David Chipperfield

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

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

— Lebbeus Woods

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

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman