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Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

— Richard Morris Hunt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

— Malorie Blackman

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.

— Linwood Barclay

Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

— J. B. Pritzker

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

— Frank Gehry

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

— Alain Robert

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

— Peter Zumthor

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

— Kevin McCloud

✗Opposing Perspectives

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

— Bob Nelson

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

— Christopher Columbus