Building is a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory. Profoundly inspirational building quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Building Quotes
We shape our buildings thereafter, they shape us. Winston Churchill
The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Dan Wells
Building is about getting around the obstacles that are presented to you. Jeremy Renner
Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up Sameh Elsayed
You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it requires people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney
I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chain man on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two mile road gave me internal peace. Brian Strang
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. Louis Kahn
The most fundamental building blocks of the basic building blocks of the universe are infinitely divisible moments in time. Khalid Masood
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. Adrienne Clarkson
If you are asked to build a castle, don’t build it out of sand by the ocean, don’t build it out of ice in the middle of summer. Build it with the best materials, with the best design, and with the intention to make it last the passing of time. That castle ought to be your legacy. F. A. Barillas
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner
Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire, but we don’t often emulate them, because quarrying, cutting, transporting, and fitting stone require a patience we no longer possess. Alan Weisman
It is not the beauty of the building you should look at: it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. David Allan Coe
I walk past a construction site and manage a fond smile as I watch the workers clean up for the day, their behemoth starting to claw its iron talons toward the sky as the materials come together, magically creating a new economy where once there was none. Melanie A. Smith
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this. That a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed- but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens
If you build it well, a satisfaction comes An honor to say I built that with fidelity, Purpose, value and integrity Richard L. Ratliff
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Federico Garcia Lorca
Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave. Steven Magee
To me, a building, if it is beautiful, is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. Martha Graham
Every house is built by a man. But Maker is the Builder of life. Lailah Gifty Akita
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. Dave Berry
If we abandon the past in the pursuit of the future, we’ve left all of the construction materials behind. So, we might show up at the site, but we’re not going to be building anything. Craig D. Lounsbrough
The road to success is always under construction. Arnold Palmer
Revolution meant shattering one structure and creating another one, but shattering was easier than creating, and so the two parts of the act were not necessarily fated to be equally successful. In that sense, building a revolution was like building an arch; until both columns were there, and the keystone in place, practically any disruption could bring the whole thing crashing down. Kim Stanley Robinson
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure. Doug Coupland
Realize building a cobblestone path to your destination requires laying down one stone at a time. Jeffrey G. Duarte
Life is like a highway, no matter what they say, the construction is never finished. Nishan Panwar
The earliest forms of building regulations were laws enacted by individual cities in response to a specific need. J. Stanley Rabun
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. Glenn Gould
By the middle of the fourth quarter of the nineteenth century, most larger cities in America had a building law. J. Stanley Rabun
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Richard Courant
It will be necessary as a building is analyzed to have at least conceptual knowledge to which loads the original architect or engineer was designing for. J. Stanley Rabun
Proportion is the heart of beauty. Ken Follett
The early settlers of the Virginia Colony brought English building traditions of the late medieval period to America and initially used the building materials that were readily available and that they were familiar with, notably wood. J. Stanley Rabun
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. I built a temple in my head. Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
As the body of a man is arranged with voids, entrances and hollow places for its maintenance, so the building needs them too. Alexander Tzonis
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them. Frank Lloyd Wright
As the major part of the beauty of a man is in his face, so it should be with the building. Alexander Tzonis
Good ideas come from everywhere. It is more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. Jeanne Gang
A general rule is that the size of materials should be proportionate to the grandeur of the building and its character. Alexander Tzonis
I walk past a construction site and manage a fond smile as I watch the workers clean up for the day. Melanie A. Smith
Frank Woolworth, farm boy risen to retail tycoon, had a great dream: to build the tallest building in the world bearing his name. Ivan Žaknić
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
Rockefeller Center as a whole is the world’s largest privately owned business and entertainment center, part of a 22 acre complex inn midtown. Ivan Žaknić
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. Frank Lloyd Wright
The Woolworth building was the first to have its own power plant, which generates enough electricity for 5000 people. Ivan Žaknić
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us. Frank Lloyd Wright
Almost every component of a building serves more than one function, with some components commonly serving ten or more simultaneously, and these functions are heavily interdependent. Edward Allen
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
If we decide to build the partitions in a school building of thin sheets of gypsum wallboard over a framework of steel studs, instead of bricks and mortar, we will affect the thermal properties of the building Edward Allen
Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. Peter Zumthor
A building has its own ecology, a delicate internal balance of connected mechanisms that function not in isolation but as a richly interconnected whole. Edward Allen
The real beauty of the building is seen when the right paints touch its walls. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Each material used in building construction has its own unique set of physical properties relative to the flow of heat. Edward Allen
I prefer to work with the looseness of pencil than the precision of ink or a computer. Thom Mayne
An important part of a designer’s job is to select and combine building materials in such a way as to result in a building whose enclosure performs as much of the building’s climate control function as possible, leaving as little work as possible to be done by energy consuming heating and cooling systems. Edward Allen
The truth is that a nineteenth century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. Witold Rybczyński
The enclosure of a building, quite independently of any mechanical heating or cooling systems, does a great deal to modify the temperature and humidity of the interior air. Edward Allen
Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams. Israelmore Ayivor
Humidity is reduced in a well designed building by the exclusion of both ground dampness and precipitation. Edward Allen
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
A large building has many local service panels for its various floors and zones, each such zone has wiring much like that of a house. Edward Allen
A world which sees art and engineering as divided is not seeing the world as a whole. Professor Sir Edmund Happold
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
