Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

God dwells in the details.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.