Construction Materials Quotes

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

Architecture is invention.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Four inch nails is more like it!

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

I'm very interested in architecture.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

Fly ash helps create longer-lasting and stronger concrete for use in roads, bridges, runways, and rail transit.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

I love architecture.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.