I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Every building must have... its own soul.

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