Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Architecture is invention.

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

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

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.

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?

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

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

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

I love architecture.

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Building design isn't trendy.

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 future of architecture is culture.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.