Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
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.
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.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
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.
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.
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.
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 the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
