- Daniel Libeskind: We are only at the threshold, at the beginning, of what modern architecture really is. Not at the ending which is what postmodernism thought it was; a type of apocalyptic end of the empire of architecture, rather than an awareness that what will be happening in the future will be really going very deeply into the consequences of modernization.
- Heinrich Klotz: For me, Deconstructivism is a new trend which will bring to a close much that was before. In fact, I believe that the tradition of the modern is only currently achieving its actual representation. There is now a neo-modernism. The whole scene has become very much enriched and very complex and cannot be defined as a one-track situation, one cannot say deconstructivism is the new architecture now. But there is something like a second modernism now, whose scope is much broader.
- Peter Eisenman: People have been concerned with relating from their selves to the physical environment as a source of security. And I believe that if the physical environment makes them anxious, they might turn inward, and the true source of security is internal. The physical environment can never provide that. It can provide physical comfort, shelter, but it never can provide psychological shelter.
- Bernard Tschumi: There's one thing, it's that architecture is not simply about static structures. It's all about movement, it's all about event, it's all about action. Both the action of the building, what they do, but also what happens in them. In other words, the performance of the, let's say the actors, you as the visitor, you as the protagonist of quite a large set of circumstances, and architecture is part of all those circumstances, part of the plot.
- Heinrich Klotz: I believe, in its best examples, deconstructivism is an indication of how we perceive our lives today and a good part of it is the uncertainty we feel. It is also a protest against consumerism, against the ready-made product. Art plays a part as well, aesthetics, consciously applied aesthetic language, to say no to everything that is our daily life, to that consumerism.