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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.
It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.
The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city
It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'