Architecture Quotes

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 housing.

Zaha Hadid
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Renzo Piano

I’ve learnt to stop treating architecture as consisting of privileged forms and materials; that’s the hallmark of the strictly disciplinary approach. I think it is more realistic to start with the problems of the people and their environment.

Alvaro Siza Vieira
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

Jay Chiat
- People
- Up
- Work
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

Mario Botta
- People
- Dream
- Space
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

Hampton Fancher
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Barbara Kruger
- Power
- Space
- Architecture
My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work.

Oscar Niemeyer
- Life
- Work
- Important