I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Glibness will get your anywhere.