Alan Huffman Quotes

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

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

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

I'm very interested in architecture.

Building design isn't trendy.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

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

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

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

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

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

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

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

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

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