Willis Polk Quotes

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

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I like building.

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.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

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.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I do not write, I build.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.