Bird Quote by Peter Zumthor

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

— Laozi

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Minoru Yamasaki

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

— Helmut Jahn

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without…

— Gordon Matta-Clark

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

— Doris Lessing

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the…

— Raimund Abraham

“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each one should…

— Collin Johnson

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

— Minoru Yamasaki