My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their…

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

— Bill Bryson

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole…

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

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

— Andrew Jackson Downing

My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most children.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Mario Botta

“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we…

— Jon Favreau

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

— Julia Morgan

“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

“When we drop all of our painful effort to attain something, then suddenly there is spaciousness in our consciousness, a sense of being unobstructed,…

— Anam Thubten

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as…

— Pema Chodron