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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?
Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.
What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.