Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.