3 December 2020 Maya Lin Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Hacker Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
3 December 2020 Julia Morgan My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.
3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is my work, and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
3 December 2020 Joe Elliott I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical.
3 December 2020 Mukesh Ambani The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
3 December 2020 Oksana Baiul One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
3 December 2020 Rem Koolhaas The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it’s done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
3 December 2020 Rem Koolhaas Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
