Occupation: Architect Birth: July 8, 1906 Death: January 25, 2005
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be..
I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep..
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….
We do pretty much whatever we want to..
[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowl….
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations:….
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds..
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our archi….
I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people..
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life..
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun..
Pick very few objects and place them exactly..
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one mu….
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build..
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner..
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….
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space..
Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked ….
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in….
American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School..
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….