Willa Cather Quotes

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I love architecture.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

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

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

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

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

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

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

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

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.

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

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.

My main profession is architect.

I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.