Built Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

— Francis Bacon

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think…

— Kelsey Grammer

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

— Anthea Turner

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

— Peter Morville

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

— Gottfried Bohm

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had

— Francis Bacon Sr

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody,…

— Anonymous

“Maybe to save money, many people do not paint the outer walls of the private and public buildings. The city will appear clean and…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with…

— Moshe Safdie

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail…

— James Howard Kunstler

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo