The flowering of geometry.
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
An arch never sleeps.
Women are the real architects of society.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Buildings should be good neighbours.
Form ever follows function.
I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
A building is a string of events belonging together.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for a...
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.