Ma Yansong Quotes

I'm very interested in architecture.

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

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 am an architect, first.

I love architecture.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

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 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.

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.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

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

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

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.

I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

My father was an architect.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

Building design isn't trendy.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.