Pastoral Resources

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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?

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.