Thetechnologyofdecentralization can bethesaviouror assassin of contemporary and future society. The role of architects may be uncertain, but the role of architecture is not. In order to look forward society may sometimes haveto look back.This it should do inorder to learnfrom previous mistakes and oversights and to preclude similar eventualities in the future. This does not imply historical dependency, as some would assert. The symbiosis of architecture and technology should prevail, engendered by honesty and integrity. The task will not be easy.

-Murphy, Ian
  'The impact of the environment: the shock of the new', in Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw (eds) Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought (1993).

In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality.

-Nuttgens, Patrick
  'The Nature of  Architecture', in Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw (eds) Companion to Contemporary  Architectural Thought (1993).

L'architecture est le miroir me"  me de la vie. Il n'est que de jeter les yeux sur des e¤  difices pour sentir la pre¤  sence du passe¤  , l'esprit d'un lieu; ils sont le reflet de la socie¤  te¤  . Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

-Pei, I(eoh) M(ing)
  Les Grands desseins du Louvre (with E J Biasini).

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

-Rudofsky, Bernard
  Architecture without Architects.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

-Self,Will
Feeding Frenzy.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

-Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
  East toWest.

The whole basis of the views of architecture prevailing today must be displaced by therecognition that the only possible point of departure for our artistic creation is modern life.

-Wagner, Otto
  Modern Architecture (1895), preface.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

-Wright, Frank Lloyd
  In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank LloydWright on Architecture: selected writings (1894^1940).

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

-Wright, Frank Lloyd
  In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank LloydWright on Architecture: selected writings (1894^1940).