Building Quote by Russell Brand

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

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in…

— Zaha Hadid

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

New ideas must use old buildings

— Jane Jacobs

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

— A. L. Rowse

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that…

— Victor Hugo

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

— Oscar Niemeyer