In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

My buildings are more famous than me.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

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

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first thing they think of.

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.