Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
The future of architecture is culture.
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
