If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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.
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.
Who is the architect? I am the architect.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.