Building Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or…

— Minoru Yamasaki

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

— Gottfried Bohm

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid…

— William Mackergo Taylor

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote…

— Thomas Heatherwick

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

— Thomas Carlyle

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.

— Santiago Calatrava