It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don't know who could have lived with me. As an architect you're absolu...tely devoured. A woman's cast in a lot of roles and a man isn't. I couldn't be an architect and be a wife and mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The architect ... has something in common with the landscape gardener. Everyone can grasp the fact that the gardener's success dep...ends on whether or not the plants he selects for the garden thrive there. No matter how beautiful his conception of a garden may be it will, nevertheless, be a failure if it is not the right environment for the plants, if they cannot flourish in it. The architect, too, works with living things--with human beings, who are much more incalculable than plants. If they cannot thrive in his house its apparent beauty will be of no avail--without life it becomes a monstrosity. It will be neglected, fall into disrepair and change into something quite different from what he intended. Indeed, one of the proofs of good architecture is that it is being utilized as the architect had planned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each city is an archetype rather than a prototype, an exaggerated example from which to derive lessons for the typical. Each city ...vividly superimposes elements of a supranational scale on the local fabric: churches in the religious capital, casinos in the entertainment capital. These cause violent juxtapositions of use and scale in both cities. Rome's churches, off streets and piazzas, are open to the public; the pilgrim, religious or architectural, can walk from church to church. The gambler or architect in Las Vegas can similarly take in a variety of casinos along the Strip. The casinos and lobbies of Las Vegas are ornamental and monumental and open to the promenading public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect,... With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this be fled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagine that it is you yourself who are erecting the edifice of human destiny with the aim of making men happy in the end, of givi...ng them peace and contentment at last, but that to do that it is absolutely necessary, and indeed quite inevitable, to torture to death only one tiny creature, the little girl who beat her breast with her little fist, and to found the edifice on her unavenged tears--would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For thou, O Spring! canst renovate All that high God did first create.... Be still his arm and architect, Rebuild the ruin, mend defect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »