“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.”
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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.