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I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.
The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me.
There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
We can’t have landfills forever and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.
Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.