Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

I'm very interested in architecture.

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

I love architecture.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Building design isn't trendy.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Architecture is invention.

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

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

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

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

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

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.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

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

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.