Building Quote by Helmut Jahn

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space.…

— Sydney Pollack

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

— Hito Steyerl

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without…

— Gordon Matta-Clark

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of…

— Paul Goldberger

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

— Richard Meier

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

— David Adjaye

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

— Fumihiko Maki

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 building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

— Charlie Chaplin

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the…

— Peter Zumthor

Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of…

— Olafur Eliasson