Marcel Wanders Quotes

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

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

My main profession is architect.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

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

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

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

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

I'm very interested in architecture.

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

I love architecture.

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

Building design isn't trendy.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

I'm not an architectural composer.

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.