That kid can hit balls over buildings.
They say that 'home is where the heart is. ' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.
We built tall # buildings , but we have not become any taller.
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.
Don't just look at buildings. . . watch them.
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.
I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.