Construction Materials Quotes

#1. Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

Keith Ellison

#2. If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

David Chipperfield

#3. The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

Peter Morville

#4. Correct scientific understanding and ingenious designs aren't sufficient: you also need a matching level of sophistication in construction materials with the necessary properties and available power sources.

Lewis Dartnell

#5. Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Robert Henri

#6. It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

Herbert Hoover

#7. I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

Jules Verne

#8. We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

Manuel De Landa

#9. 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.

Steven Holl

#10. Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

Tom Turner

#11. You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.

Le Corbusier