Top Buildings Quotes

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, wh...

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

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

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone...

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

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