Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Books are finished.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.