Zitat des Tages über Frank Lloyd Wright:
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The primary factor is proportions.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
Poets are born, not paid.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.
