One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

- Andre Leon Talley

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

- Rem Koolhaas

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

- Norman Foster

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

- Ai Weiwei

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

- Coco Chanel

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

- Rem Koolhaas

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

- Steven Holl

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

- Rem Koolhaas

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

- Patricia Marx

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

- Kenneth Frampton