I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
