Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
Great artists need great clients.
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to mone...
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love...
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A cit...
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.