Occupation: Architect Birth: July 8, 1906 Death: January 25, 2005
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of ….
I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like th….
I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In f….
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations:….
I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people..
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's ….
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds..
Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody..
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not onl….
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing..
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set stand….
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of hi….
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that….
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space..
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to som….
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original..
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it..
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating..
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper..
Architecture is art, nothing else..