Alive Quote by Benedetta Tagliabue

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

— Elizabeth Diller

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to…

— Dan Gilbert

I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that…

— Vito Acconci

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process…

— Christopher Alexander

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

— Anonymous

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright