Emilio Ambasz Quotes

I'm very interested in architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

I was always doodling house sketches.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Building design isn't trendy.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.