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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
