“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about

beauty.

But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I

know it’s wrong.”

“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The

architect’s task therefore, is to make those

sentiments more precise.”

“Supply and demand regulate architectural form.”

“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be

expected to last long.”

“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that

people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand

it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure. “

“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for

design.”

“When we build, let us think that we build forever.”

“The architecture we remember is that which never

consoles or comforts us.”

“To me the drawn language is a very revealing

language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is

really an architect.”

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next

larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house,

a house in an environment, an environment in a city

plan.”

“A great building must begin with the immeasurable,

must go through measurable means when it is being

designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.”

“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from

selection, affinities, integration, and love.”

“The essential element in architecture is the

manipulation of space. It is this essence which

separates it from all other arts.”

“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and

impotence.”

“Ornamentation has been, is, and will be polychrome.

Nature does not present us with an object in

monochrome, totally uniform with respect to colour –

not in vegetation, not in geology, not in topography,

not in the animal kingdom. Always the contrast of

colour is more or less lively, and for this reason we

must colour wholly or in part every architectural

element.”

“I am always searching for more light and space.”

“I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong

to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of

the structure has nothing to do with strength of the

material.”

“For me, the excitement in architecture revolves

around the idea and the phenomenon of the

experience of that idea. Residences offer almost

immediate gratification. You can shape space, light,

and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in

larger projects.”

“There is a rumour that I can’t draw and never could.

This is probably because I work so much with

models. Models are one of the most beautiful design

tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can

imagine.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's

blood.

"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,

remembering that a noble, logical diagram once

recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a

living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing

insistence.”

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form.

We should try to bring in under the same hat not a

splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony

together.”

“My passion and great enjoyment for architecture,

and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is

because I believe we - architects - can affect the

quality of life of the people.”

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”