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I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?
I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.
People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."
Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.
I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable.
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.
American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.