Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.
Architecture should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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.