Norman Foster Quotes

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• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
• Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
• The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
• 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 to…
• Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much…
• I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
• Architecture is an expression of values.
• It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
• Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...
• I think you never stop learning.
• The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an…
• 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…
• Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.
• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill,…
• You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
• Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
• The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.
• I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.
• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill,…
• When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days,…

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