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If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.
I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
I'm not left-wing, or right-wing. With only one wing I couldn't fly, and I just couldn't have that.
I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.