As an architect I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension. |
At the time we were planning the building, ... Joyce wanted to include a sensory park. But the budget wouldn't let us do both projects, so we agreed to work on the park when there was money to do so. |
Design has nothing to do with economic class. If I were designing for Cartier or Tiffany, I would expend the same energy. |
I do have some questions about the constitutionality of these city ordinances. |
I don't believe in morality in architecture. |
I don't care what people call me,labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. |
I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space. |
I have no requirements for a style of architecture. |
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. |
I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience. |
If I have a style, I am not aware of it. |
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. |
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good. |
It really warmed my heart, |
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. |