When I started university, I didn’t know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.
Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.
The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities.
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don’t just take orders.
I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.
I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There’s a lot of architecture in our songs.
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.
From an architecture perspective, Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. We’ve had exchanges continually hacked after Mt. Gox. This has been an ongoing problem that has continued to plague our industry.
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.
When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.
I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture.
My architecture is very much place-related.
The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.
If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.
The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.
I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.
A film carries six fine arts – it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It’s a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.
The ‘Scowcroft Model’ recognizes – and embraces – the unique but necessarily modest place the National Security Council and the national security adviser occupy in the American national security architecture.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
