“The architect's role is to make the mythic real.”
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.”
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
“We shape our buildings: therefore they shape us.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.”
“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.”
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
“I call architecture frozen music.”
“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”
“When we build, let us think that we build forever.”
“We live in a time of renaissance … cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
“Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because the idea wasn't theirs.”
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”