Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.
The future of architecture is culture.
