A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.
We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.
A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
