Building Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

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

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

— Helmut Jahn

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify…

— William McDonough

Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or…

— Bjarke Ingels

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

We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.

— Bjarke Ingels

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

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so…

— Helmut Jahn

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be…

— Dan Phillips

I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not…

— Santiago Calatrava

The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will…

— John Todd

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go…

— Donald Judd