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A new building should deliver a feeling of hope.
We have to base architecture on the environment.
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Design is something you have to put your hand to.
The door handle is the handshake of the building.
The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate
As architects we have a responsibility to society
The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin
A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
An absolutely different and distinctive character.
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
Art should be created for life, not for the museum
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.
Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.
Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.