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.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

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

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.