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Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

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