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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.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.