Alive Quote by David Olusoga

Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?

— Steven Wright

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

— Ma Yansong

Our historic buildings reflect our unique past.

— Marty Walsh

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for…

— Frank Gehry

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

— Louis Sullivan

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the…

— Hillary Clinton

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

— Peter Clewes

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

Buildings have been made because of man.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe