I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches. — Keith Allen 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
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot… — Rob Beckett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings. — Park Won-soon 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
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
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue… — Dave Gibbons 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo 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
