Kevin McCloud Quotes

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.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

I just wondered how things were put together.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I do not write, I build.

Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on development and technology in Formula 1.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.