Occupation: Architect Birth: July 14, 1938
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless..
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation.
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions..
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function..
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about buildin….
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural q….
Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?.
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking..
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a plac….
The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its ….
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification ….
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts..
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of….
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work..
I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want….
I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge age….
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these thing….