I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

He didn’t like religion, hadn’t liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould,...

The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile.

If you want to understand what’s most important to a society, don’t examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one...

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone...

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their...

I don’t know why wicked places generally look wicked. You’d think they’d look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe,...

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I’ve been humiliated in.

Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host of...

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women’s Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations,...

If you look at the buildings, you’ll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it...

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the...

If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

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.