I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

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.

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.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.