The success or failure of a life as far as posterity goes seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.
Architecture in general is frozen music.
We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
My house is my refuge an emotional piece of architecture not a cold piece...
I believe very strongly and have fought since many years ago - at least over...
Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of...
Until the Eighties Oslo was a rather boring town but it's changed a lot...
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and...
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a...
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need...
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the...
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of...
Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there...
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This...
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying...
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the...
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility...
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering...
The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the...
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which...
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
If a building becomes architecture then it is art.
If you examine this I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of...
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely...
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity especially in...
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie...
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a...
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something...
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted...
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise you work together you...
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music...
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and...
