Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. Use this quote
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. Use this quote
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. Use this quote
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. Use this quote
All real education is the architecture of the soul. Use this quote
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Use this quote
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. Use this quote
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. Use this quote
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. Use this quote
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. Use this quote
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. Use this quote
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! Use this quote
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Use this quote
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Use this quote
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. Use this quote
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Use this quote
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Use this quote
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. Use this quote
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. Use this quote
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. Use this quote
