Buildings Quote by Elizabeth Diller

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

— Benedetta Tagliabue

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

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 wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that…

— Vito Acconci

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain…

— Richard Rogers

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

— Gottfried Bohm

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even…

— Adolf Loos

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

We are like a building for building fall and then we rebuild and with every rebuild we build stronger finding where the weak spots…

— Anonymous

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore…

— James Howard Kunstler