No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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?
The flowering of geometry.
Good architecture lets nature in.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Women are the real architects of society.
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.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
An arch never sleeps.
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.
I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anach...
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
Buildings should be good neighbours.
Form ever follows function.