Batteries Quote by Rem Koolhaas

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

— Helmut Jahn

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people…

— Helmut Jahn

“I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site…

— Witold Rybczynski

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

— Rem Koolhaas

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

— Ayn Rand

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to…

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well…

— James Howard Kunstler

A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant…

— Elizabeth Diller

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do…

— Richard Ford