Architecture Quote by Walter Gropius

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural…

— Moshe Safdie

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations…

— Cesar Pelli

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect…

— Leon Krier

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group…

— Curtis W. Fentress

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the…

— Jonathan Meades

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end…

— Martin Filler

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of…

— Tadao Ando

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

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

— Zaha Hadid

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable