Occupation: Architect Birth: January 25, 1944
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge..
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts..
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks….
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building..
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusi….
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder..
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for….