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
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
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
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Jean Nouvel
I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.
Jean Nouvel
I think architecture has to be a gift.
Jean Nouvel
What is being called the UN ‘gender architecture’ is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
Charlotte Bunch
Architecture is politics.
Mitchell Kapor
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci