Abstraction Quote by Zaha Hadid

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have…

— Ray Metzker

There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the…

— Zaha Hadid

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if…

— Georges Bataille

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the…

— Anonymous

When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to…

— Carlo Carra

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

— Cameron Sinclair

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we…

— Neri Oxman

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality…

— Greg Lynn

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

— Jimenez Lai