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

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.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

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

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.