Roisin Murphy Quotes

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

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.

I'm very interested in architecture.

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

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

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

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

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.

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

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

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

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

Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

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.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.