Building Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

— Frank Gehry

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of…

— David Allan Coe

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the…

— Raimund Abraham

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it…

— Richard Rogers

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

— Miranda Otto