Buildings Quote by Thomas Heatherwick

“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

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with…

— Moshe Safdie

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

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

— Peter Zumthor

“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of their context.…

— Wade Graham

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but…

— Zaha Hadid

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

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

— Philip Johnson

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and…

— Santiago Calatrava