Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left a...
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authentic...
Genuinity is mother of stupidity.
Das Leben ist zu kostbar, um es dem Schicksal zu überlassen.
This is my logo for Steve
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Obuze, mitraliere, aburi de gaze, flotile de tancuri - strivire, devorare, moarte.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
A vida é um longo Inverno, para quem não conhece o amor.
Wizard is as wizard does.
Hindi mo ba alam na mas marami tayong kaibigan na hindi nakikita kumpara sa nakikita?
O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando.
A vila é um simulacro. Melhor: a vida é um simulacro.
Ale zdání vždycky klame. Nejvíc.
Acho que o Santo Graal é um sonho que os homens têm, um sonho de que é possível tornar o mundo perfeito. Se ele existisse, todos nós teríamos sabido que o sonho não pode se transformar em realidade.
