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.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Each material is only what we make it.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

God is in the details.