Cecilia Bartoli Quotes

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

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

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

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

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

I like to build houses.

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

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

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.