“Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building…A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.”

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building.

I’m trying to get some building work done at the moment.

Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.