Quote Tag

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they’re doing with the World Trade Center site.

I don’t believe in architecture as a profession. It is a passion.

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

I call architecture frozen music.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.