Architect Quote by Toyo Ito

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

— Peter Zumthor

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

— Brian Foote

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

Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this…

— Alvaro Siza Vieira

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so…

— Helmut Jahn

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

— David Chipperfield

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

— Phil Crosby

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through…

— Martin Filler

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But…

— Arne Jacobsen