Stewart Brand Quotes

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I love architecture.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Architecture is invention.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

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

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I am but an architectural composer.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.