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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
