Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you like ice cream, why stop at one scoop? Have two, have three. Too much is never enough.
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.
The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.
When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.
The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.
I didn't know how it was to be a bachelor. I never felt like one. I think it's a mental state.
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.
People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.
I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.