Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.