Building Quote by Christopher Alexander

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their…

— Hugh Ferriss

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

“All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.”

— Elisabeth Beazley

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

“A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like…

— Rowan Moore

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

— Zeno Vendler

“Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.”

— Mark Frost

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated…

— Eero Saarinen

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and…

— Christopher Alexander

“If we close our eyes and take a deep breath, and summon meaningful memories, we quickly notice that they are tied to a specific…

— Sarah Robinson

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light…

— Le Corbusier