I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money. . . and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch. . . is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.
Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together, these disciplines represent for me a fantastic platform for experimentation and expression. Of particular importance is the junction of the rational and the poetic resulting hopefully in works that resonate and belong to where they reside.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
Dismantling the architecture of my discontent