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I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

— Thom Mayne

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✓Similar Perspectives

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

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

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

I'm very interested in architecture.

— Nikki Sixx

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Toyo Ito

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

— David Chipperfield

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

— Zaha Hadid