#buildings

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

#american #any #architect #buildings #designed

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#been #buildings #certain #city #detroit

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. ↗

— Helge Ingstad

#buildings #clear #fishermen #houses #indian

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#best #blues #buildings #i #point

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, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#home #identity #architecture

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #combined #invested #labour #machinery

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. ↗

— Alain Robert

#danger #element #even #faces #feeling

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 thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#buildings #cadaver #humor #oppression #oppressive

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#anything #buildings #did #doing #i

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. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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