I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
