The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Who is the architect? I am the architect.
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Architecture aims at Eternity.