Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.