Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this. ' 'The city made me do this. ' 'Oh, the budget. ' I don't believe that anymore.
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture of corruption is different in different countries. The corruption we suffer is not the same as the corruption that debilitates Africa. But it is both corruption, and both need to be eliminated if the faith in democracy is not going to be destroyed.
I am but an architectural composer.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space. . . On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.