Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of thos….

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - a….

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion..

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried..

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington..

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in ter….

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers..

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks..

Every generation tailors history to its taste..

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed place….

Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of va….

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative….

Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel….

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or ….

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads….

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on..

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind..

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that ….

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice..

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a ….

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kin….