Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it’s designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it’s done by some of the world’s largest corporations.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Architecture is the beginning of something because it’s – if you’re not involved in first principles, if you’re not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it’s cake decoration.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Architecture is my work, and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.
What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that’s the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.
Chicago’s one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
The future of architecture is culture.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
What’s interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.
Mies van der Rohe’s architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
