8 Quotes by Emilio Ambasz

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.

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.

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

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

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

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, “The next one.”