Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
On inspection, Gaudi’s architecture isn’t whimsical at all.
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky – we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.
Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I’d just do theater on the side.
Ever since childhood, I’ve been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act – that is its primary role.
I love ‘70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.
As a child, my father’s architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn’t respond to it.
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don’t have to understand it. You may not like it. That’s OK.
Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it’s them I’m designing for.
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it’s a special place.
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
I love Chicago. It’s one of the great cities. I’m crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.
Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.
In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.
The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.
I’m trying to create architecture as landscape. But I’m not copying nature.
