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To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.
My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.
I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.
My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.
People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.
... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.
As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.
What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.
In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.