Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Architecture is invention.
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.