Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.
Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart
We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.