The World Motivation
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
“There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.”
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
My closest partner and the person I have been working with for 35 years has been my wife. She not only supported me and helped me but also framed my life.
The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.
The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.
When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.