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Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.
The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.
Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.
Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.
An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.