Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
