“Buildings are always better than drawings and models.” — Rafael Moneo Quote

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

You see these terrorists that are flying planes into buildings, right? You see our cities getting shot up in California. You see Paris getting shot up. And then somebody complains when a terrorist gets waterboarded, which quite frankly is no different than what happens on college campuses and frat houses every day.

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.