You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
