Buildings Quote by Helmut Jahn

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

— Bjarke Ingels

We should be building houses like we build cars - controlled environment, huge amount of research and development, high levels of quality control.

— George Clarke

We have to base architecture on the environment.

— Toyo Ito

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

— Ken Yeang

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing…

— John Ruskin

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

— Winston Churchill

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

— Elizabeth Diller

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

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

— Robert Evans

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

— Cedric Price

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

— Cameron Sinclair

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

— Minoru Yamasaki