I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don’t come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
I don’t want to do architecture that’s dry and dull.
Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it’s still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
I like the architecture of lingerie.
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change – but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
The artistic part of us all – I think that the easiest way to appreciate this – is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
I’m not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that’s very pop. I don’t want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material.
I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material – more of an environment, not a product.
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn’t architecture unless it’s alive. Alive is what art is. If it’s not alive, it’s dead, and it’s not art.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
