“My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.”– Luis Barragan Related Quotes “Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”– Rem Koolhaas “I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.”– Arne Jacobsen “I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.”– Maya Lin