Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
The first year of the Boot Ride was an amazing experience. Seeing people come out from all over, ride and, most importantly, put on their boots, was an inspiration.
My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
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 stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
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.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
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.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
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.
