Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

America ain’t three fifths bad.

If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Life would split apart without letters.