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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

— Rafael Moneo

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

— Bjarke Ingels

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

— David Chipperfield

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

— Oscar Niemeyer