Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around…

— Minoru Yamasaki

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

— Haile Gebrselassie

“Do you know what I do sometimes? I look at buildings or up at the sky and because their plain features look like they…

— Karl Kristian Flores

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about…

— Marina Warner

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

— John Ruskin

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most children.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

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

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito