Yelena Baturina Quotes

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.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I never built houses, only apartments.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

I'm not an architectural composer.

My main profession is architect.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

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

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

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

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

I am an architect, first.

I'm very interested in architecture.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

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

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

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.