The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

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.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.