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I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.
When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.
I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.
This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do.
Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
If we could combine Starbucks' spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.
I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.