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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.
When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
My mom really instilled in me this idea that parents are not perfect and they make mistakes.
When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.
I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.
It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.