In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also,… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
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… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
