Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. – James Rouse

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. – Arne Jacobsen

Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have. – Maya Lin

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers

In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings. – Delia Ephron

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. – Adolf Loos

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. – Alvar Aalto

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.