Architects design houses. I live in a home.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers - by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake...

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content - driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit...

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It...

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

It is ridiculous to impose on people where a thing should stand, designing everything for them from the toilet to the ashtray. On the contrary, I prefer people to move their furniture so it suits them...

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of your executive Cinderella needs...

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

...Pat wondered what inspiration an artist might find in the attempts of twenty-first-century architects to impose their phallic triumphs on the cityscape. Had any artist ever painted a contemporary...