Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. Frank Gehry on architecture
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. Ai Weiwei on architecture
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. John Irving on architecture
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. Helmut Jahn on architecture
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? Helmut Jahn on architecture
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. Helmut Jahn on architecture
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. Helmut Jahn on architecture
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. Caroline Wozniacki on architecture
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. Minoru Yamasaki on architecture
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. Minoru Yamasaki on architecture
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. Minoru Yamasaki on architecture
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen on architecture
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community. Stephen Gardiner on architecture
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. Tadao Ando on architecture