“I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be ab...” — Rafael Moneo Quote

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.

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

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.