Building Quote by Ben Nicholson Download Open image “I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.” — Ben Nicholson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Design Done Engineering House
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans,… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of. — William Krisel Copy Share Image
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that. — Steven Holl 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 terrible. — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit… — Yoshio Taniguchi Copy Share Image
It took me all day to find some inspiration. It just hit me like a ton of bricks, no renovation. — J Cole Copy Share Image
I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960. — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading… — Jim Cummings Copy Share
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image