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A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.
The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’
After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
Universe to each must be All that is, including me. Environment in turn must be All that is, excepting me.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.
I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.
We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.