Possible or not, they tried to turn me into a Nick McNugget. (Nick)
The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself. . . New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
Good enough to tweet, not to say.
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?