I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect yo...
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive op...
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
My buildings are all on budget.
