Occupation: Architect Birth: December 23, 1944 Death: December 30, 2001
It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion.
Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary..
The hand expresses what the heart already knows..
The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it..
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, th….
The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional..
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change..
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subv….
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complace….
I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble..