Building Quote by Oscar Niemeyer

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

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have…

— Philip Johnson

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

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture…

— David Chipperfield

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Gottfried Bohm

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

— Iain McGilchrist