Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
My buildings will be my legacy they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
Good buildings come from good people ad all problems are solved by good design.
When I design buildings I think of the overall composition much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
One does not need buildings money power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
They claim this mother of ours the Earth for their own use and fence their neighbors away from her and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings why sit on the beach?
Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.