Norman Foster – “As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness …”
Norman Foster best Design Quotes – “As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
Norman Foster
Norman Foster – “Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and …”
Norman Foster best Design Quotes – “Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.”
Norman Foster – “I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. W…”
Norman Foster best Design Quotes – “I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don’t see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.”
Norman Foster – “When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval ci…”
Norman Foster best Design Quotes – “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, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing – the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.”
Norman Foster – “There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too …”
Norman Foster best Architecture Quotes – “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 all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.”
Norman Foster – “The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day …”
Norman Foster best Amazing Quotes – “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 eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.”