Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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.

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

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

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 practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

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 equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

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

I'm not an architectural composer.

I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.