Acquisition Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

— Elizabeth Diller

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history,…

— David Chipperfield

Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and…

— David Olusoga

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I…

— Peter Zumthor

“I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it…

— Douglas Adams

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People…

— Christopher Wren

“It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated and belong…

— Martin Adams

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm