Jack Dangermond Quotes

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.

My architecture is very much place-related.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

I'm very interested in architecture.

Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

Building design isn't trendy.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

The future of architecture is culture.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

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.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

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?

There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.