Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

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

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.