Quote by Matthew Frederick

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to…

— Jonathan Hale

A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.

— Nikolaus Pevsner

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

— Deborah Tall

In the U.K. we are shed mad and the level of inventive design and eccentricity is an entirely new world. I love it because…

— George Clarke

“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of their context.…

— Wade Graham

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

— Gottfried Bohm

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

— Thomas Manss

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

— Charlotte Moss

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

— Bernard Tschumi

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, /…

— Pablo Neruda