Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

A room is not a room without natural light.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Even a brick wants to be something