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I don't go running after publicity.
Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination.
My architecture is very much place-related.
I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.
I am always searching for more light and space.
A new building should deliver a feeling of hope.
The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.
The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.
My personality is more the personality of a painter.
Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.
Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour.
You have to live with the necessities of other people.
A railway station is something that can generate a city.
You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.
Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.
The Freedom Tower has a cost overrun. A significant cost overrun.
I would like to be an artist who works in a very closed ambience.
I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.
Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.
A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.
I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.
Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.
Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable.
The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.
It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.
The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of.
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.
When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.
As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.
If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.
I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island… those bridges… the skyline… the dynamism.
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.
I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.
The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.
As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.
We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.
I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.