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.

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

[In art], less is more.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Each material is only what we make it.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.