Building Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature…

— Louis Sullivan

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end…

— Martin Filler

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

— Daniel Kleppner

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.

— Cass Gilbert

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

— Elon Musk

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

— Kevin McCloud

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.”

— Andrew Shaffer

We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.

— Bjarke Ingels

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more…

— Bill Bryson