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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. -- David Allan Coe
I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. -- Tony Fadell
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational. -- David Chipperfield
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images. -- Peter Zumthor
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. -- Andy Warhol
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent. -- Martin Filler
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. -- Jackson Pollock
There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea. -- Dave Gahan
The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. -- Witold Rybczynski
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. -- Peter Zumthor

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