There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
