True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

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

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

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

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.