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One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.
My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.
Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.
Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.
The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.
I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.