Norman Foster
Norman Foster
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank of Reddish, OM, HonFREngis a British architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 December 1903
people towers manhattan
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.
ive-learned building something-new
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 to buildings.
nice frustration logos
I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?
thinking never-stop-learning
I think you never stop learning.
numbers eternity should
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...
practice creative directors
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 closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
school littles architecture
I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.
unexpected habit source
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
art math reality
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.
spiritual cutting technology
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.
effort looks building
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
dumb driving architecture
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
expression architecture values
Architecture is an expression of values.
would-be impossible architect
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.