Building Quote by Louis Sullivan

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

“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

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

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

“A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like…

— Rowan Moore

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor