“The reigning champion of local library architecture remains San Jose’s superbly realized West Valley Branch Library. Rob Quigley’s tour de force channels an appropriate liveliness with a reassuringly sunny, comfortable space.
Alan Hess, San Jose Mercury News, March 27, 2005

"Quigley creates in the tradition of California's Spanish-revival mission style, building on a foundation of standardized construction methods and collective imagery developed in tandem with these methods. This does not mean that he merely employs a particular aesthetic, but rather that he picks up on a particular warping of styles to create forms that are logical and relevant and so reveal their history and place."
Aaron Betsky's essay, Rizzoli monograph 1996, Buildings + Projects

“Quigley’s work moves towards a regional architecture, proud of being southern Californian and reaching towards a unity flowing out of the culture, the climate, the people, the history.”
San Diego Magazine 1979


“Quigley... is alone in taking the youthful spirit of sunny southern California and making it the basis for a new style of architecture.”
Esquire Magazine, “In Search of the Best of a Generation,” 1984


“... Quigley cares about joy. He sets out to satisfy clients’ architectural needs, just the way every other good architect does, but he also infuses his work with joy –– a quality that definitely is not found in the work of every other good architect.”
John Dreyfuss, Los Angeles Times, 1982