Emilio Ambasz famous quotes

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
-- Emilio Ambasz

#Answers #Next #Architecture

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
-- Emilio Ambasz

#Reality #Impact #Drawing

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
-- Emilio Ambasz

#June #America #Parent

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
-- Emilio Ambasz

#School #Sublime #Architecture

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.
-- Emilio Ambasz

#New York #Bankers #Argentina

The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.
-- Emilio Ambasz

#Animal #Skins #Chairs

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.