I wanted to be a pilot…– Hussein Chalayan
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
As a mature and responsible nation…– Sushma Swaraj
As a mature and responsible nation, one of India’s foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.
There’s a snobbery at work in architecture…– Norman Foster
There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
There’s a Danish architecture firm called BIG…– Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
There’s a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they’re very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.
They can do without architecture who have no …– Henry David Thoreau
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
In architecture, you arrive so late…– Thom Mayne
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they’re all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
Any work of architecture that has with it some …– Richard Meier
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
Considering my specialization in architecture…– Martin Filler
Considering my specialization in architecture, I’m not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s ‘Batman: Death by Design.’
Japanese traditional architecture is created based …– Tadao Ando
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
Living in Edinburgh…– Sara Sheridan
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky – we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.