Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

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.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

The room is the beginning of architecture.