Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Emilio Ambasz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Argentinian architect Emilio Ambasz.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Emilio Ambasz

Emilio Ambasz is an Argentinian-US architect and award-winning industrial designer. From 1969 to 1976 he was Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Ambasz has been labeled as "the father, poet, and prophet" of the green architecture by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

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.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
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.
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.
The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. — © Emilio Ambasz
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
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