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Buildings should be good neighbours. -- Paul Thiry
Buildings are forms of performances. -- Rafael Vinoly
Buildings have been made because of man. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga. -- Robert A. M. Stern
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings are always better than drawings and models. -- Rafael Moneo
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. -- John Portman
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. -- John Portman
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. -- Frei Otto
Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. -- Robert Evans
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. -- Robert Evans
Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. -- Kevin Myers
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. -- Paul Goldberger
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces. -- David Adjaye
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. -- Taylor Hanson
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. -- Taylor Hanson
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. -- Tommy Douglas
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. -- Winston Churchill
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. -- Julia Morgan
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. -- Stephen Gardiner
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. -- Julia Morgan
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. -- Antoni Gaudi
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. -- Arthur Erickson
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. -- Julie Burchill
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. -- Sitting Bull
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. -- Ban Ki-moon
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. -- Nellie Bly
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. -- Morihei Ueshiba
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. -- Michael Mandelbaum
When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings. -- Michael Enzi
One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash. -- Joey Dunlop
It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. -- Nanette Lepore
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. -- Amiri Baraka
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. -- Myles Munroe
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. -- Wole Soyinka
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. -- David Chipperfield
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. -- Alvar Aalto
When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park. -- Erin Cummings
My buildings are all on budget. -- Frank Gehry
New ideas must use old buildings -- Jane Jacobs
New ideas often need old buildings. -- Jane Jacobs
And exciting buildings are fine periodically. -- Minoru Yamasaki
I try firstly to make buildings humane. -- Moshe Safdie
Light is what gives joy to buildings. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
My buildings are more famous than me. -- Jean Nouvel
That kid can hit balls over buildings. -- Casey Stengel
By law, all buildings should be white. -- Le Corbusier
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. -- John Ruskin
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. -- Ken Yeang
Architecture is about public space held by buildings. -- Richard Rogers
All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. -- Stewart Brand
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. -- Mark Twain
What the people are within, the buildings express without. -- Louis Sullivan
Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish. -- Hugh Howey
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land. -- Nicholas Haslam
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. -- Victor Hugo
Yes, and I also like jumping out of tall buildings. -- John Vanbiesbrouck
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings! -- Abby Sunderland
The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited ... -- Patricia Moyes
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. -- Jan Gehl
Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. -- China Mieville
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. -- Alexander Jackson Davis
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. -- Victor J. Stenger
People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings. -- Shigeru Ban
My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites. -- Cesar Pelli
I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections. -- Leonard Lauder
When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people. -- Siad Barre
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. -- Mark Webber
I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God. -- Madeline Amy Sweeney
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. -- Kevin McCloud
There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it. -- Howard Rheingold
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. -- Philip Johnson
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. -- Peter Zumthor
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy. -- Christiana Figueres
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. -- Shelby Foote
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings. -- Haile Gebrselassie
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. -- Felix Baumgartner
We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves. -- Jane Jacobs
School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day. -- Nikki Giovanni
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. -- Hugh MacDiarmid
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works. -- Jan Gehl
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. -- Zaha Hadid
Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon. -- Charles Mingus
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. -- Richard Rogers
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? -- Philip Johnson
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. -- Robert Towne
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. -- Jane Jacobs
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. -- Philip Johnson
We built tall #â?? buildings , but we have not become any taller. -- Dejan Stojanovic
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. -- Thom Mayne
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' -- Whit Stillman
The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems. -- Markus Zusak
We expect too much of new #"? buildings , and too little of ourselves. -- Jane Jacobs
In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance. -- Edwin Land
I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement. -- Barbara Boxer
Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts? -- Steven Wright
Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. -- John Pawson
There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them. -- Ed Helms
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. -- Bernard Tschumi
I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. -- Neri Oxman
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. -- Meg White
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings. -- Jared Kushner
St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. -- Philip Johnson
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. -- Stephen Gardiner
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. -- Richie Benaud
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. -- Yeardley Smith
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. -- Christo
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. -- Tadao Ando
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. -- Delia Ephron
i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart. -- Suheir Hammad
Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul. -- Carlos Barrios
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. -- Peter Zumthor
Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. -- Jill Telford

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