Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.