Acceptable Quote by Frank Gehry

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction,…

— David Chipperfield

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths,…

— Peter Zumthor

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is…

— 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

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and…

— Santiago Calatrava

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended…

— Jonathan Anderson

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go…

— Donald Judd

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of…

— David Allan Coe