Building Quote by Peter Clewes

Our historic buildings reflect our unique past.

— Marty Walsh

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

— Elizabeth Diller

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke

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

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore…

— James Howard Kunstler

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

— Ayn Rand

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

Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and…

— David Olusoga