I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of…

I used to walk in the burnt up Harlem of the '80s, and I'd look at brownstones that were dilapidated or apartment buildings, thinking…

— Malik Yoba

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people…

— Bjarke Ingels

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

— Fiona Bruce

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

— Ma Yansong

“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.”

— Niall Ferguson

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing…

— Harry Seidler

London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has…

— Hilary Farr

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

— Norman Foster

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

— Park Won-soon

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then…

— Linda Ronstadt

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and…

— Matt Cartwright

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

— Herbert Hoover

“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

— Jenova Chen