Buildings Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.

My buildings are all on budget.

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

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

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

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.

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

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

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

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.