Around the world Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

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

— Gottfried Bohm

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

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

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like…

— Bjarke Ingels

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent…

— Donna Tartt

We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to…

— Bernd Becher

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with…

— Joseph Rykwert

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

— Marcel Breuer