When someone tells you about the peak year of human history, the period of time when things were good before things went downhill, it will always be the years of when they were 10 years sold — which is the peak of any human’s existence.
当有人和你讲人类历史的巅峰辉煌之年,即事情走下坡路之前的那段时期,你发现好像总是他们10岁的时候--这是任何人类存在的高峰。
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
The true poet is like a prince; his words are laws.
Technological progress should make life simpler, not more complicated.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.