If a building becomes architecture then it is art.

If you examine this I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples no ambitions.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise you work together you play off each other you make something they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me it's a way of trying to understand the city and what might happen in the city.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Architecture of all the arts is the one which acts the most slowly but the most surely on the soul.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources to move into the future.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.

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.

I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.