I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
Less is more.
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.
Everyone's really lazy in L. A.
I do my best to look at the bigger picture and not sweat the small stuff. I make it a point to have alone time. I value that some of life’s best moments happen over a meal with your family or a glass of wine with your friends. And when life seems like a lot to bear, I dance around like a kid until I laugh.
All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.