"To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works." - Ai WeiweiTweet
"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 TangeTweet
"As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost." - Harry von ZellTweet
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building." - Arthur EricksonTweet
"I don't believe in morality in architecture." - Michael GravesTweet
"In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings." - Delia EphronTweet
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions." - Coco ChanelTweet
"The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs." - Harry SeidlerTweet
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art." - Adolf LoosTweet
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." - Samuel ButlerTweet