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48. "Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful—
it gives it power."- Claudio Silvestrin in Elle Decor
49. "Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe
in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate
the barriers of misunderstanding and provide a beautiful context for life's drama." - Frank Gehry in
his 1989 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech
50. "Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and
most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of
all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience."
- John Portman in "The Architect as Developer"
51. “Architecture is a social art. And as a social art, it is our social responsibility to make sure that we
are delivering architecture that meets not only functional and creature comforts, but also spiritual
comfort.” - Samuel Mockbee
52. "Architecture is too important to be left to men alone." - Sarah Wigglesworth in Parlour
53. "Architecture is not a purely private transaction between architects and clients. It affects everyone,
so it ought to be understandable to everyone. - Blair Kamin
54. "Architecture is vital and enduring because it contains us; it describes space, space we move
through, exit in and use." - Richard Meier in his 1984 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech
55. "Architecture is more about ideas than materials." - Qingyun Ma in Los Angeles Times
56. "Architecture is not just for big star projects like museums. It's for the slums around them, too."
- Juan Ramon Adsuara in npr
57. "Architecture is bashful about reality." - Wouter Vanstiphout in Archis
58. "Architecture is just background. The beauty of architecture is that it brings people together and
can create public constructs." - Ben Van Berkel in AD Interviews
59. "Architecture is about hope, about change—it makes life more exciting." - Lars Lerup in Architect
60. "Architecture is blessed and cursed with more dimensions than its greats know what to do with:
the three of sensible space, the celebrated fourth of travel through it; and others, ineffable, beyond—
the fifth of utility, say, the seventh of happy accident, the ominous eleventh." - Philip
Nobel in Metropolis
61. "Architecture is a mystery that must be preserved." - Jean Nouvel in Huffington Post
62. "Architecture is only as great as the aspirations of its society." - Lisa Rochon in Globe and Mail
63."Architecture is like the picture of Dorian Gray: It can look beautiful in public, while somewhere
out of sight its true soul withers and rots." - Lance Hosey in Architect
64. "Architecture is about reason-right?" - Alfred Caldwell in Chicago Tribune
65. "Architecture is a profession of optimism." - Johanna Hurme in spacing
66. "Architecture is about the manipulation of light: both artificial light and day lighting."- Tom
Kundigin Architectural Record
67. “Architecture is expected to carry too much weight in many cases.” - Patricia Patkau in Globe and
Mail
68. “Architecture is not a goal. Architecture is for life and pleasure and work and for people. The
picture frame, not the picture.” - William Wurster
69. "Architecture is the most obvious flower of a society's culture." - Alan Balfour in Art Papers
70. "Architecture is more than making a statement from the street. It's making an environment for
living.” - Dion Neutra in Los Angeles Times
71. “Architecture is a translation process.” - Fernando Romero in Metropolis
72. "Architecture is quite a narrow, obsessive business." - Nicholas Grimshaw in The Guardian
73. "Architecture is perplexing in how inconsistent is its capacity to generate the happiness on which
its claim to our attention is founded." - Alain de Botton in The Architecture of Happiness
74. "Architecture is a kind of urban ballet." - Aaron Betsky in New York Times
75. "Architecture is a history of style written by the victors." - Herbert Muschamp in New York Times
76. "Architecture is driven by belief in the nature of the real and the physical: the specific qualities of
one thing - its material, form, arrangement, substance, detail - over another." - Kester
Rattenbury in This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions
77. "Architecture is not always synonymous with building." - Francisco "Patxi" Mangado
78. "Architecture is complicated and like other complicated things it is prone to entropy from the
outset." - Guy Horton in Metropolis
79. "Architecture is where imagination meets life." - Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa in their 2010
Pritzker Prize Ceremony Speech
80. "Architecture is an incredible ego trip. You get things done, you build them, you look at them.
That's why I enjoy life and don't have an ulcer. - Stanley Tigerman in the Chicago Tribune
81. "Architecture is a strange field where we’re constantly asked to demonstrate over and over why
design matters, to everyone, all the time. It’s exhausting." - Amale Andraos in Metropolis
82. "Architecture is about the lack of stability and how to address it. Architecture is about the void and
how to cross it. Architecture is about inhospitability and how to live within it." - Geoff Manaugh in The
Guardian
83. "Architecture is both an art and a practical pursuit, and the profession has always been divided
between those who emphasize the art, that is pure design, and those who give priority to the
practical." - Paul Goldberger in New York Times
84. Architecture is one of the reflections of the permanence of a civilization. - Charlie Rose
85. Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. - Martin
Fillerin The New York Review of Books
86. "Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if
you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years." - Renzo
Piano in Time
87. "Architecture is the pathology of the contemporary era." - Forensic Architecture
88. "Architecture is a discipline directly engaged with shaping enclosure, of erecting and toppling
barriers or—more explicitly—of extending and limiting ‘freedoms’." - E. Sean Bailey & Erandi de
Silva in "BI's First Print Edition Released - FREE: Architecture on the Loose"
89. "Architecture is interesting, but by itself it means nothing." - Massimiliano Fuksas in New York
Times
90. "Architecture is an art, yet we rarely concentrate our attention on buildings as we do on plays,
books, and paintings." - Witold Rybczynski in Metropolis
91. "Architecture is aligned with and implicated in the systems of surveillance and control." - Eric
Howelerin Volume
92. "Architecture is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent art." - Albert Kahn
93. "Architecture is probably the subject of more theorizing, navel-gazing and introspective agonizing
than any of the other arts." - Paul Gapp in the Chicago Tribune
94. "Architecture is invention."- Oscar Niemeyer in Newsweek
95. "Architecture is always political." - Richard Rogers in Financial Times
96. "Architecture is a frame of mind, it’s about ideas; the profession is about how to translate those
ideas into the real world." - Christopher Janney in Architectural Record
97. "Architecture is an active participant in the interactions of people within it." - Jonathan C.
Molloyin ArchDaily
98. "Architecture is not only developing in its own realm, it is constantly assimilating achievements
from other fields. - Maya Engeli in Volume
99. "Architecture is first and foremost about serving people and society. This is an architect’s
responsibility: to design buildings that fulfill their practical purpose, bring people together, and
connect us to the natural world while preserving precious resources." - Steven Ehrlich in Metropolis
100. "Architecture is about building a place in the universe, not about mimicking a depleted, decrepit
reality." - Stefanos Polyzoides in The LA Times
101. "Architecture is a public commodity, and as such invites public scrutiny." - Reed
Kroloff in Architecture*
102. “Architecture is not about the creation of newness but rather about the fulfillment of needs and
expectations." - André Tavares in Forbes
103. "Architecture is the same as advertising for communicating the brand." - Patrizio Bertelli in The
New York Times
104. "Architecture is not just about accommodating very prescriptive demands—it’s doing it in a way
that stimulates the unfolding of life. - Bjarke Ingels in Co.Design
105. "Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears
witness to past life." - Peter Zumthor in Thinking Architecture
106. "Architecture is flexible.” - Krzysztof Wodiczko in St. Louis Post - Dispatch*
107. "Architecture is a combination of science and fiction." - Winy Maas in Domus
108. "Architecture is the art we all encounter most often, most intimately, yet precisely because it is
functional and necessary to life, it's hard to be clear about where the "art" in a building begins."
- Jonathan Jones in The Guardian
109. "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and
hopefully beautiful things; that's all." Harry Seidler in the Sydney Morning Herald
110. "Architecture is used by political leaders to seduce, to impress, and to intimidate.” - Deyan
Sudjic inThe Washington Post
111. "Architecture is a paradigm for reconsidering research.” B.D. Wortham in Journal of Architectural
Education*
112. "Architecture is about giving form to the places where people live. It is not more complicated
than that but also not simpler than that. - Alejandro Aravena in his 2016 Pritzker Prize acceptance
speech
113. "Architecture is generally a poor relative to things like film, fashion and product design. Even
though it is economically more important, for some reason it is not getting the recognition." - Tamsie
Thomsonin The Architects' Journal
114. "Architecture is a complex and articulated process but if you lose the process and only keep the
form you lose the core of architectural practice." - André Tavares in Wallpaper*
116. "Architecture is practical poetry." - Bjarke Ingels at the New Yorker Festival
117. "Architecture is the sum of inevitable negotiations." - Felipe Mesa in Domus
118. "Architecture is more than just buildings; these structures can inspire and motivate people to do
great things." Fisk Johnson for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
119. "Architecture is one of those disciplines that has no shortage of voices." - Guy
Horton in Metropolis
120.“Architecture is always a temporary modification of the space, of the city, of the landscape. We
think that it’s permanent. But we never know.” - Jean Nouvel in The New York Times
121. "Architecture is like life: a matter of trade-offs." - Paul Goldberger in The New York Times