Quote of the month

2025

'Why do we build? We build because we believe in a better future' - Amanda Levete, AL_A (January)

2024

'As an architect, you design for the present with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown' - Norman Foster (December)

'The design of a building must first and foremost be functional; it must not only look good but also work well.' - Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (November)

'I see music as fluid architecture' - Joni Mitchell (October)

'Universities should be about doing those things that you can't do at the kitchen table' - Anon (June)

‘Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!’ - Lacaton & Vassal (May)

'Being in the presence of art changes how we relate to a building' - Maria Maddalena Cellerino, Roma Tre University (April)

'A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good' - David Chipperfield (March)

'People ignore design that ignores people' - Frank Chimero (February)

'Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (January)