Americans Quote by Sarah Vowell

“If you find yourself surrounded by negative, whiny, sarcastic people, consider the architecture of your life and think about doing a little renovation. ”

— Matt Tullos

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly,…

— James Howard Kunstler

“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.”

— Andrew Shaffer

“You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture”

— Dean Cavanagh

“I visited Dubai, and all of the buildings seemed so new, like they were made of cardboard, barely there. Then I went home to…

— Eric Weiner

“The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe that in…

— China Miéville

“I’ve got a piece of the American Dream. I don’t have a house, but I do have a new chandelier. Now I just have…

— Jarod Kintz

“I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings…

— Fanny Merkin

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

— Luis Barragan

“Careful minds build durable buildings; careless minds build rotten buildings!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan