Buildings Quotes

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.

My buildings are all on budget.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.