Architecture Quote by Toyo Ito

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in…

— Zaha Hadid

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

— Santiago Calatrava

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and…

— Zaha Hadid

Cities are platforms for sharing.

— Lisa Gansky

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

— Jane Jacobs

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to…

— Jacque Fresco

The value of real estate to a city is huge. A community that is invested in making deep roots in an area creates a…

— Hilary Farr

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

— Tadao Ando

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

— Aldo Rossi

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

There's a lot that the city can do, and it depends on having a partnership with community members who are living the realities.

— Michelle Wu