I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. - Norman Foster
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
- Norman Foster
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an al… - Norman Foster
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an al…
Architecture is an expression of values. - Norman Foster
Architecture is an expression of values.
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless. - Norman Foster
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual c… - Norman Foster
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual c…
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. - Norman Foster
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. - Norman Foster
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. - Norman Foster
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t. - Norman Foster
Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
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