When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Growth for the sake
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey
Urban Design
What you see is
What you see is what you see. Frank Stella
One of my unsung
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a … Read more
When people condemn me
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven’t done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It’s just that when I got out of school there wasn’t much of a market for that. There still isn’t. Frank Gehry
I do quite like
I do quite like Gehry’s Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it’s seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it’s seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake. David Chipperfield
The world will not
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. Albert Einstein
London is one of
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. Renzo Piano
The new architecture and
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace. Rebecca Solnit
When I’m working on
When I am working
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller