Architect Quotes

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.'
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.
It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
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.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
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