Bits Quote by David Chipperfield

London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has…

— Hilary Farr

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the…

— David Chipperfield

The new build will play a vital role in the £1billion regeneration project at Longbridge, providing a strong educational element to the employment led…

— Karren Brady

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

— Zaha Hadid

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed…

— Michael Portillo

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

Sustainability requires that we demand enduring quality. Steve Strong has a slide presentation pointing out that much of Oxford was built 800 years ago.…

— Denis Hayes

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the…

— Jonathan Meades

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Britain needs to build a lot more houses.

— Nick Boles

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed…

— David Adjaye