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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

— Rafael Vinoly

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

— Rem Koolhaas

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

— Thomas Heatherwick

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

— Renzo Piano

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

— Kenzo Tange

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

— Adolf Loos

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

— Martin Filler

✗Opposing Perspectives

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

— Oscar Niemeyer

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

— David Chipperfield

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

— Ai Weiwei