I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
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.
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals...
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the...
For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for...
Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me it's unfair to someone who's indigent...
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.