Buildings Quotes

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

Buildings are forms of performances.

— Rafael Vinoly

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

— Phyllida Lloyd

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

— Moshe Safdie

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

Buildings have been made because of man.

— Leon Battista Alberti

I'm scared of high buildings.

— Udo Kier

I love the colorful buildings in Jaipur.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

— Keith Allen

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

“It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.”

— Bill Bryson

Don't say he White House wants. Buildings can't want.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

— Farah Diba

“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”

— James Renner

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or…

— George Clarke

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

— Moon Unit Zappa

“Big, bulbous, ruddy buildings with vast ballrooms, grand, angular staircases, and as many turrets and crenellations as a recreational condom. The”

— Douglas Adams

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

— Joseph Campbell

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than…

— Rem Koolhaas

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot…

— Rob Beckett

Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

— Park Won-soon

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must…

— Wole Soyinka

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we…

— Alvar Aalto

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings…

— Bernard Arnault

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's…

— Moshe Safdie

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue…

— Dave Gibbons

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about…

— Prue Leith

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like…

— Mario Botta

“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the…

— Tom Wolfe

“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of…

— Thomas Hardy

“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,…

— Jon Ronson

“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be…

— W.G. Sebald

High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not…

— Christopher Alexander

“I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris…

— Victor Hugo