Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.
The room is the beginning of architecture.
It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.
To build is to be robbed.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
Architecture is an expression of values.
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.
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
Architecture is the work of nations
I see architecture as a form of communication over time.