Alan Casden Quotes

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.

In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.

I really like Kansas City Royals stadium - Kauffman Stadium.

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.

There's not a ballpark I've ever played in as a visitor or home that has the historic feel and energy that Fenway Park has.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.

Only if you're from L.A. do you know Elysian Park.

The Bernabeu is a fantastic stadium, probably the best stadium I have ever played.

A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.