Big Quote by Greg Lynn

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I…

— Steven Chu

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are…

— Georg Baselitz

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological…

— Julian Schnabel

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

— Walter Gropius

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

— Theaster Gates

I like to say we can make anything in wood.

— David Linley

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

— Jeremy Scott

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe