Building Quote by Doris Lessing

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because…

— Cesar Pelli

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

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

— Dejan Stojanovic

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the…

— Peter Zumthor

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

— Emilio Ambasz

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

— Frank Gehry

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

— Alain Robert

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

— Thom Mayne