Buildings Quote by Richard Rogers

At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they…

— Michael Persinger

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral,…

— Minoru Yamasaki

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes…

— Martin Filler

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not…

— Jamais Cascio

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century…

— A. Hunter Dupree

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

— Jonathan Anderson

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson

High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create…

— Christopher Alexander

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

— James Wyatt

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most…

— John Ruskin