My painting does not come from the easel.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
When does a building actually become a built?
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.