Gianfranco Ferre Quotes

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

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

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.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I'm not an architectural composer.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I am an architect, first.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

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.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Architecture is invention.

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.

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

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

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.