But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.