The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.

I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

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

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

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