Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
Without foundations, there can be no fashion.
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.