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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.
You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.
I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.
If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.