Buildings Quote by Elizabeth Diller

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

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It…

— Peter Zumthor

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands.…

— Rem Koolhaas

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

— Frank Gehry

A building is a very interesting frame. You always get a sort of sample of different people inside a building.

— Hito Steyerl

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

— Peter Clewes

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

— Frank Gehry

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

— Gottfried Bohm

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

— Danny Hillis

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

— Robert Evans