Love of an idea is the love of God.

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

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

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