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.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

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.

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.

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

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.