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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth.
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.
Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy
Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.
Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.
You never change people by fighting their existing reality.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
In a town church the right place for the admission of light.
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.
I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.