S. J. Rozan Quotes

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

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

I love architecture.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Building design isn't trendy.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I'm very interested in architecture.