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.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Good architecture lets nature in.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Women are the real architects of society.
An arch never sleeps.
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
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.
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
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...
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.
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.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Buildings should be good neighbours.
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...
A building is a string of events belonging together.
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