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I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.