The World Motivation
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.