Ji Chang-wook Quotes

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

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

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.

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.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

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

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

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

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

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

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 didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

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

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.