Boxes Quote by Santiago Calatrava

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

— Kenzo Tange

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore…

— James Howard Kunstler

“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.”

— Cedric Price

“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly, and the…

— John Updike

I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency,…

— Ma Yansong

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

— Miguel McKelvey

Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and…

— Dorothy Draper

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

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 believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that…

— Mos Def

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

— Frank Lloyd Wright