Construction Quote by Walter Gropius

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

— Alvar Aalto

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“There is one other extremely important aspect of synthetic thinking. The systems with which we deal are becoming increasingly complex. Think, for example, of…

— Russell L. Ackoff

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not…

— Gottfried Bohm

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing…

— Max Bill

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of…

— Carmelo Anthony

Each material is only what we make it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility…

— Mark Kingwell