Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

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.

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

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

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