The empty nest is underrated.
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.
My favorite project is always the next one.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.
I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.
Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.
I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.