Emilio Ambasz Quotes

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

My favorite project is always the next one.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Dream more than others think practical.

It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

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

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.