Virgil Abloh Quotes

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.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

I studied psychology at university.

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

I did a history degree once.

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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.

I graduated from college in 1980.

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

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

My mum wanted me to go to university.

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

Fewer than 13 percent of high school students will continue to study math and science in college—usually the most well-prepared and persistent students who often come from families where encouragement and enrichment is fundamental

My main profession is architect.