To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
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I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.