We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a rapper. I want to be in the movies. I want to own buildings. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts? — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first… — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“There are times when all goes well, when I compose a sentence and stand back just to enjoy it. This sensation is… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
