Architecture Quote by Vito Acconci

If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter…

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter,…

— Zaha Hadid

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but…

— Zaha Hadid

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

— Philip Johnson

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It…

— Daniel Libeskind

Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior…

— Vito Acconci

“Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]”

— Juhani Pallasmaa

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a…

— Jean Nouvel

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

— El Lissitzky