Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

Less is only more where more is no good.