Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

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

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

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.