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Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite. By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. By Martin Puryear

Buildings have been made because of man. By Leon Battista Alberti

Those who build are greater than those who tear down. By Matshona Dhliwayo

You need to step out to build before God could bless what you are building By Sunday Adelaja

To build you need vision;to sustain you need strength. By Matshona Dhliwayo

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. By Thomas A Kempis

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. By Ryan Holiday

The reality of the building does not consist of the roof and walls, but the space within to be lived. By Lao-Tzu

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over. By Max Barry

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. By Philip Johnson

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. By John Pawson

Buildings should be good neighbours. By Paul Thiry

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it. By Cameron Mackintosh

I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful. By Adrian Chiles

I built it all by myself : My Country.Petra Hermans By Petra Hermans

I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. By Isambard K. Brunel

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I try to create homes, not houses. By Louis Kahn

To build is to be robbed. By Samuel Johnson

New ideas often need old buildings. By Jane Jacobs

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things. By Renzo Piano

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. By John Ruskin

The room is the beginning of architecture. By Louis Kahn

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." By Emilio Ambasz

Architecture is about public space held by buildings. By Richard Rogers

[..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..] By Douglas Adams

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives. By Sarah Susanka

I propose to build for eternity. By Filippo Brunelleschi

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. By Ty Pennington

have compiled a list of some of the best resources for building By Michael Hyatt

If you want to have a strong structure, build the foundations the right way. By Eraldo Banovac

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. By Frank Lloyd Wright

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. By Robin Boyd

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. By David Allan Coe

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. By Peter Zumthor

There is no house until it's built. By Marty Rubin

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that's loved. By Cameron Sinclair

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. By Leon Krier

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. By Walter Gropius

I am an architect, first. By Hugh Hardy

To build something, you need sirious people. There aren't any such, or my luck is that I don't find them! By Deyth Banger

Build, don't tellShow , don't sell By Anonymous

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them. By Walt Disney

Those who don't build must burn. By Ray Bradbury

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts? By Steven Wright

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. By Helmut Jahn

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks. By Herb Kelleher

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. By Mother Teresa

We're building our own fucking cubicles. By Thor Benson

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. By Frank Lloyd Wright

Every place is the same, but we put names and numbers, build building different types... so far to remember them better and to recognize them better! By Deyth Banger

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home. By John Henry Jowett

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children. By Renzo Piano

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows. By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Architecture begins where engineering ends. By Walter Gropius

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build By Martin Heidegger

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear. By Walt Whitman

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. By Ludwig Wittgenstein

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. By Louis I. Kahn

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. By Cesar Pelli

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. By Annabelle Selldorf

Demolition is a part of construction. By Daniel H. Wilson

Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light By Le Corbusier

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Stop sketching and start building. By Dennis Crowley

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. By Alan Rickman

and a build like a brick shithouse. By Robyn Peterman

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. By Richard Rogers

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere. By Christian De Portzamparc

Architects face this threat, but builders don't. By Matthew B. Crawford

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be aware of the walls you build and what could be on the other side By Alice Clayton

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. By Renzo Piano

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. By Spiro Kostof

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. By Thom Mayne

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. By Harry Seidler

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it. By Kevin Mccloud

Rather than thinking to build, build to think. By Tim Brown

Long-time professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Chris Alexander By Stewart Brand

Stop sketching. Start building. By Dennis Crowley

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. By Adrienne Clarkson

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit. By Ezra Pound

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. By Daniel Libeskind

Every building must have ... its own soul. By Louis Kahn

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. By Kenzo Tange

Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.) By Aaron Cometbus

Architecture is a way of life By Barwa

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults By Curtis W. Fentress

I want to build some thing permanent. By Rick Riordan

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. By Minoru Yamasaki

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale. By Martin Freeman

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. By Rumi

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. By Stephen Gardiner

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. By Ada Louise Huxtable

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it By Gordon Matta-Clark

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. By Peter Zumthor

I am going to build something big for you. By Andrew Smith

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building. By Rob Pike

The new building housing the store. The By Kristen Proby