Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

- Hugh Hardy

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

- Hugh Hardy

During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those arc…

- Hugh Hardy

Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to b…

- Hugh Hardy

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast f…

- Hugh Hardy