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I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.
Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no' too seriously.
Airports need an identity, a main hall that defines the dignity of the space and allows people to move fluidly throughout its ancillary parts.
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.
I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change
'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.
I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.