The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
L’architecture est art de suggestion.
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
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 ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Minimal art went nowhere.
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.