it is true that architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity is in the realm of significance. i hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the invention 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 | IIT | 1950


design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
steve jobs | fortune magazine 2000


people can inhabit anything. and they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything.
architecture has nothing to do with it.
rem koolhaas | tweet from 19th july 2008


associative, wild, free, ordered, and systematic thinking in images, in architectural, spatial, colorful, and sensuous pictures - this is my favorite definition of design.
peter zumthor | thinking architecture | birkhäuser 2010