Architecture Quote by Joseph Campbell

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

— Joseph Campbell

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke

For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of…

— Thomas Hauser

“A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary and sensitive…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

— Bernard Tschumi

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the…

— Michael Mandelbaum

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton

All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the…

— F. Sionil Jose

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

— Kevin Myers