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

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.