The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Prison house for the soul

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.