To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music.
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
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?
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
