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I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House. -- Ben Nicholson
Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies. -- Edward Mazria
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. -- Martin Filler
Building design isn't trendy. -- Kevin McCloud
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. -- Alexander Jackson Davis
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. -- Stephen Gardiner
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. -- Robert Evans
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. -- John Malkovich
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. -- Zaha Hadid
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. -- Robert Evans
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. -- Minoru Yamasaki
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. -- Oscar Niemeyer
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. -- Arthur Erickson
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. -- Cesar Pelli
I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do. -- Hugh Hardy
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. -- Louis Kahn
Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good. -- Gregg Harper
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. -- Martin Filler
I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too. -- Tyler, The Creator
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. -- David M. Kelley
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. -- Zaha Hadid
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. -- Tadao Ando
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. -- Tadao Ando
We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees. -- Pietro Belluschi
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. -- Jane Jacobs
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. -- John Ruskin
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. -- Michael Graves
To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled faÃ§ade reminds me of a heat shield. -- Jerry Saltz
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion. -- Ada Louise Huxtable

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