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I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.
We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.
That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.
If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.
People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.
I personally feel that, for some people, their physique and looks work for them. And when you're deprived of both these aspects, you rely on humour!