Buildings Quote by Peter Zumthor Download Open image “I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.” — Peter Zumthor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buildings Engineering Ideas Interested Mainly Mean Symbols Vehicles
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or house. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths,… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings… — David Chang Copy Share Image
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think that there's… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
