There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
“The buildings were as real yet ethereal as the abandoned shell of a cicada, clinging to a tree branch, molded by the… — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings… — Edd China Copy Share Image
Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those… — Declan Burke Copy Share Image
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of… — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen Copy Share Image
With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever. — Dr. Disrespect Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto,… — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs. — Laurie David Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each… — Collin Johnson Copy Share Image
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
