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 FosterThe pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
Norman FosterI 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.
Norman Foster