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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.
Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island… those bridges… the skyline… the dynamism.
I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.