Abraham Zapruder Quotes

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Without stones there is no arch.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

I just wondered how things were put together.

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

I have never been on the trail of developers or contractors.

Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.

It's fascinating to me how they build bridges or tunnels.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

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.

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

When you build a house, you have to start from the floor. You have to start from the bottom, the defence, and then you fix the attack.

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

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 went back to college for construction and design.

If you look at any film fest, the setting gives it colour. Be it Goa, Cannes or even Berlin in the winter, the setting makes these festivals special and gives it a definition.

I was following my dad around from a young age. 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.

My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

When you build the house, you don't start with the roof.