“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.”
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“The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.”
“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”
“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”
“I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.”
“I think architecture has to be a gift.”
“What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.”
“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”
“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.”
“Architecture aims at Eternity.”
“Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.”
“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.”
“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.”
“The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.”