Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
Richard Meier
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
George Lamming
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.
Giambattista Valli
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Gustav Stickley
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Kenzo Tange
Architecture aims at Eternity.
Christopher Wren
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Kenzo Tange
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
James Wyatt
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Kenzo Tange
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark
I don’t believe in morality in architecture.
Michael Graves
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Michael Graves
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Michael Graves
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
Michael Graves