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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Architecture is invention.

— Oscar Niemeyer

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

— Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

— Arthur Erickson

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

— Victor Hugo

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

— James Polshek