A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
