Building Quote by Vito Acconci

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

— Ken Yeang

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

— Elizabeth Diller

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a…

— Ken Yeang

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

— Benedetta Tagliabue

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

— Norbert Wiener

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening…

— David Suzuki

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

— T. J. Jagodowski

A change of environment is pretty refreshing.

— Owen Farrell

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

— Kevin Kelly

The environment is going to change very quickly.

— David Wilkerson

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

— Cedric Price

We have to base architecture on the environment.

— Toyo Ito