A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Each new situation requires a new architecture

Less is more

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 is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations; architecture must ease them not make them worse.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

There are 360°, so why stick to one.

Form ever follows function.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources to move in to the future.

More is more.

Architects spend an entire life with the unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

To create, one must first question everything.

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

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular, to look like it is changing the world.

I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long

Question everything generally thought to be

obvious

Buildings should be good neighbors.

Cities have the capability of providing something

for everybody only because, and only when they

are created by everybody.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Wherever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

The greatest architectural illusion is not baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant but minimalism.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Architecture is really about well being. I think that

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

its about shelter but its also about pleasure.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times; it is a beautiful catastrophe.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization.

The sun does not realize how wonderful it is until after a room is made