Greg Wise Quotes

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

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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

I'm very interested in architecture.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

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.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

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.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

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've got a furniture range with my wife, and I want to get into designing hotels and restaurants as well. We've got a big studio in Victoria and a showroom in Belgravia. I've always been interested in architecture.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

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

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.