Building Quote by Louis Sullivan

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

— Minoru Yamasaki

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

— Arthur Erickson

Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result

— Edgar Cayce

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is…

— David Adjaye

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the…

— Anonymous

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to…

— Walter Gropius

Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.

— Kenji Ekuan

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

— Hito Steyerl