I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
I’ve been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect – but I’m bad at maths.
I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
It’s amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Being in construction my whole life – I was trained as an architect – I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don’t want to be shown up by a woman.
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.
So I was shampooing at 14. But I’ve always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There’s no question about it.
The word ‘celebrity’ and the word ‘architect’ are basically incompatible.
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, ‘Son, be an architect,’ and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
I remember talking to an architect and he said ‘I am making so much money I don’t know what to do’ – I am in a business where you don’t have an idea from one end of the year to the next how what you are going to earn and it is not like a salary that you can guarantee.
I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like ‘you know what, let me just be a soap star!’
There’s no architect who doesn’t want to build a library – and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading – because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity – that is a very exciting area in architecture.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Can’t nothing make your life work if you ain’t the architect.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei’s concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
