“In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function...” — Michael Graves Quote

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.