Architectural Passion Quotes

When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

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.