Site Planning Quotes

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

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

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

My architecture is very much place-related.

Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.