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All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. — Stewart Brand
We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their… — William McDonough
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners… — P.J. O'Rourke
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. — Richie Benaud
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel… — Martin Bormann
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. — Alexander Jackson Davis
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. — John C. Portman, Jr.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. — Julia Morgan
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is… — Daniel Libeskind
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. — Unknown Author
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love… — Christopher Wren
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings — John Keats
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little… — Erving Goffman
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle… — Ambrose Bierce
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry… — W G Sebald
You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who… — Unknown Author
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on… — Peter Welch

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