To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.