Architecture Quote by Bjarke Ingels

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied…

— Norman Foster

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and…

— Santiago Calatrava

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the…

— Bjarke Ingels

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well…

— James Howard Kunstler

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

— Helmut Jahn

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that,…

— Tadao Ando

Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage…

— Philippe Starck

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is…

— David Adjaye

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in…

— Origen

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

— R. Buckminster Fuller