Building Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around…

— Minoru Yamasaki

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

— Minoru Yamasaki

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

“[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.”

— Gary Corby

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

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

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral,…

— Minoru Yamasaki

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work…

— Jean Nouvel

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor