The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.

I love the colorful buildings in Jaipur.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

Buildings are forms of performances.