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Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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✓Similar Perspectives

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

— Iain McGilchrist

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

— Bjarke Ingels

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

— Max Bill

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

— Greg Lynn

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

— Philip Johnson

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Oscar Niemeyer