Spiro Kostof. "The Education of the Muslim Architect". 1986

"We need to convey with force that the architectural enterprise is incremental and collaborative, across time; that cities we live in are elaborate, generational devices, always tidying up, never finished; that there are thousand of little incidents, of space and colour and repose, that account for a Venice, a Damascus, an Isfahan, and that these are not accidental not are they attributable to name architects"

A. Pérez-Gómez. "Architecture Ethics and Technology". 1994

“Well-meaning cultural critics, seeking to deconstruct oppressive power structures from our tradition and to empower the free individual, have at the same time proclaimed the self-referentiality of art—the post-modern labyrinth of mirrors and relative values—implying that the personal imagination, and with it the very possibility of ethical action, may be an illusion.”

James Mayo. "Political Avoidance in Architecture". 1985

"To be enlightened and emancipated, people must developed a way of thinking to be both free from self-delusions and self-defeating actions."

Necdet Teymur. "Architectural Education: Issues in Educational Practice and Policy" (1992)

“Put in other words, the educational design process can be imaginative even when it is not imaginary (as it is the case most of the time!), and profoundly realistic without being expedient, subservient or mundane.”

Thomas Fisher. "In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture". 2000

“To remain silent about the values represented in what we do, either out of mistaken belief that professionals must remain ethically neutral or out of a romantic dismissal of all normative values, is to eliminate one of the main reasons for the profession’s very existence”.

David Orr

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more "successful" people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane" David Orr

Laurie Baker

"Cost-effective houses are not just for the poor, they are for everyone. The equation that a cost-effective house is a house for the poor, implying a bad looking house, can definitely be proved wrong. Isn't it the responsibility of the upper and middle classes to stop indulging in extravagance and make better looking houses instead?"(Laurie Baker )