Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.