About Quote by Norman Foster

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

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

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

— Norman Foster

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

— Norman Foster

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

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

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

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

— Norman Foster

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

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

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

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...

— Norman Foster