Quotes on Badass

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

I call architecture frozen music.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.