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I just don’t think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it’s dark, accentuate the darkness.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

We’ve been in a war and a recession. That’s why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They’re optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.