Anouska Hempel Quotes

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I'm very interested in architecture.

I love architecture.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

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

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

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

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

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.