Architect Quotes

I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care.
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.
I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
I almost never listen to the radio.
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