The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Less is only more where more is no good.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.