architecture

Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

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.

A building is a string of events belonging together.

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

An arch never sleeps.

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.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.

Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

The flowering of geometry.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

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.

The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?