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.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.