Engineering Quote by Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

“Alas! as I turned around, I perceived towering above me the last red columns of the old palace of Saladin. Upon the remains of…

— Gérad de Nerval

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

— Gottfried Bohm

“It’s one thing building a cloister to reflect the 768 of the numerological Bismillah, it’s another planning a giant alphabet out of an entire…

— Ian McDonald

“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

“In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.”

— Frank Viola

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around…

— Minoru Yamasaki

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

— Abu Bakr

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is…

— Muhammad Asad

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

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

“The splendid wooden mosque - which you can find if you search - nobody would think of showing you, being less aware of what…

— Nicolas Bouvier