Building Quote by Ayn Rand

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

— Noma Dumezweni

“When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is…

— Paul Graham

Form does not necessarily follow function

— Antonio Gaudi

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

— Minoru Yamasaki

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings…

— Tom Turner

It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors,…

— John Hench

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How…

— Jeremy Renner

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

— Luigi Colani

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning…

— Stephen Elop

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to…

— Oscar Niemeyer

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;…

— Hubert H. Humphrey