Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.
It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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.
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
