Architecture Is The Art Of How To

I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work. The Press Comes Up With This Stuff And It Sticks. I Hate The Word Starchitect. Stuff Like That Comes From Mean-spirited, Untalented Journalists. It's Demeaning.

The First Complete Sentence Out Of My Mouth Was Probably That Line About Consistency Being The Hobgoblin Of Small Minds.

Processionalism Is Primary - How You Get From One Place To Another, The Relationships And Effects Of Spaces As You Move About In Them. That's Worked Out Awfully Well In The State Theater. I'm A 'straight-in' Man Myself; I'm Too Nervous, I Like To Know Where I Am. I Also Like To Know Where I'm Going.

Architecture Is The Art Of How To Waste Space.

Faith? Haven't Any. I'm Not A Nihilist Or A Relativist. I Don't Believe In Anything But Change. I'm A Heraclitean - You Can't Step In The Same River Twice.