Nicholas Haslam Quotes

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I'm very interested in architecture.

You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.

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

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Architecture is always political.

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

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

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.

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

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.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

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?

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.

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.