Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.