Building Quote by Louis Sullivan

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

— Martin Filler

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end…

— Martin Filler

“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.”

— Andrew Shaffer

I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building.…

— Cesar Pelli

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in…

— Louis Sullivan

Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips…

— I. M. Pei

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.”

— Cedric Price

“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

“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each one should…

— Collin Johnson

Rather than trying to fit a prescribed need for office sizes, we try to go with the flow of the building as much as…

— Miguel McKelvey

“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