Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

I love architecture.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

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.

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I am an architect, first.

I'm very interested in architecture.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

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.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

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

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'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

My main profession is architect.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.