I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
From Philip Johnson
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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