Emilio Ambasz Quotes

Argentina, Architect
June 13, 1943

Emilio Ambasz is an 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 was a precursor of 'green' architecture.

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.

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- Parents
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.

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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.

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

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Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

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

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

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