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All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.
Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
I am all for trying out various kinds of hair styles. I have even worn a wig earlier in a film where I essayed the part of a woman.
The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.