Brick

Make the building work in silence, without explanation

Don’t fall in love with one idea—test it.

Clarify the concept before refining the form

I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. Philip Johnson

My architecture is easy to understand and enjoy, I hope it also is hard to forget. 📝 7af601bf…

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. 📝 0e1b8d98…

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t 📝 1151c403…

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. 📝 06a78dbc…

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There is begins 📝 8576e49f…

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions. 📝 8566b868…

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers 📝 91bb8a00…

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. 📝 2cf51fa3…

The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead 📝 e0bb527b…

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete 📝 18f4bd82…

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature 📝 a4433825…

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. 📝 44d8952d…

The natural desire to save a cat is what it means to be a citizen. 📝 9ee0b9ad…

We had better not enjoy the moment, but create the moment. 📝 f965aa27…

A good detail can rescue an average project.

Respect code and structure early; it will save the concept later