Architects

“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.”

“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, is, and will be.”

“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place.”

“My goal is to erase architecture. I want to make an architecture that disappears into the environment.”

“Une maison est une machine à habiter.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“I chose the difficult path of architecture because I believe it is a public service.”

“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“I believe in an emotional architecture. It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty.”

“I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves.”

“The real core of my work is the way materials interact with each other, how they meet and what happens in between.”

“The city is an addictive machine from which there is no escape.”

“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”

“In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.”

“在中国，过去三十年来，没有一个人问过"我们应该建什么样的城市"这个问题。”

“In China, for the past 30 years, nobody has asked the question "What kind of city should we build?"”

“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”