I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

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.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.