I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech. . . I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.