Building Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

— Adolf Loos

I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive solution you…

— Suman Rai

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

— Walter Gropius

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

— Alvar Aalto

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its…

— F. Sionil Jose

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

— Richard Florida

“Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Conglomerations of factories gave rise to the new industrial cities. Steam engines were later applied to mobile uses – the railway and steamship ushered…

— Edward A. Hudson