Building Quote by Yoshio Taniguchi

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

— Minoru Yamasaki

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

— Peter Zumthor

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a…

— Claes Oldenburg

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

— Paul Laffoley

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

— Prince Charles

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or…

— Minoru Yamasaki

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into…

— Werner Herzog

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

— Saul Steinberg