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Quotes by Architect
"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."
7
"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
7
"As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country."
7
"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
7
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
7
"You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!"
7
"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."
7
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
7
"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
7
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
7
"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
7
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
7
"Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance."
7
"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
7
"We will work with everybody for the good of New York."
7
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
7
"So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state."
7
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
7
"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."
7
"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart."
7
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
7
"And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time."
7
"I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago."
7
"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
7
"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
7
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