But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful...
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.