Alternatives Quote by Thom Mayne

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door,…

— Thom Mayne

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

— John Ruskin

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

— Elissa Slotkin

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it.…

— Thom Mayne

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures…

— Jesse James Garrett

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

— Jonathan Meades

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because…

— Brad Pitt

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is…

— Moshe Safdie

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in…

— Frank Gehry

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

— Leon Krier