Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.