Architect Quotes

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with clear black-and-white issues; they're all trade-offs. Important urban issues present conflicting values.
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?
Europe has been in my bones.
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.
If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
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