Buildings have been made because of man.
If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.
