Building Quote by Peter Zumthor

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

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that,…

— Tadao Ando

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know…

— Tadao Ando

I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical…

— Paul Goldberger

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it…

— Richard Rogers

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological…

— Julian Schnabel

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

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

— Frank Gehry

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because…

— Peter Zumthor

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