The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city...
In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the...
Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for...
For many years I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning...
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I...
In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and...
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and...
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other...
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch but its extended use in...
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any...
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The...
Form follows function.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
If I have a style I am not aware of it.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in...
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to...
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty....
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of...
If you give people nothingness they can ponder what can be achieved from...
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is...
What people want above all is order.
Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go...
Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.
I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more...
The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you...
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings why sit on the beach?
