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.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

The future of architecture is culture.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.