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.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Architecture should be rooted in the past and yet be part of our own time and forward-looking.
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization.
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case, they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space.