I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
~ Trey Parker
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
~ Louis Sullivan
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
~ Richard Rogers
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
~ Renzo Piano
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
~ Ayn Rand
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
~ John Osborne
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
~ Helmut Jahn
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
~ Kenneth Frampton
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
~ Jason Silva
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
~ Mario Botta
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
~ Martin Filler
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
~ John Irving
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
~ Arthur Erickson
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
~ Walter Gropius
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
~ Michael Graves
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
~ Alain Robert
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
~ David Chipperfield
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
~ Patricia Marx
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.
~ Amanda Hearst
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
~ Janet Echelman
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
~ Bjarke Ingels
The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
~ Edith Pearlman
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
~ Russell Lynes
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
~ Michael Ende
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
~ Martin Puryear
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
~ Saul Steinberg
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
~ Enid Nemy
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
~ Julian Assange
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
~ Naveen Jain
I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
~ William Green
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
~ Neal Barnard
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
~ Bono
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
~ Bill Maher
Time is key to building your financial security.
~ Suze Orman
