It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

- 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

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

- Norman Foster

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

- 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…

- Norman Foster

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

- Norman Foster

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

- Norman Foster

Architecture is an expression of values.

- Norman Foster

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

- Norman Foster