I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
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.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.