The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
I call architecture frozen music.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.