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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

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.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has...

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too...

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

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

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has...

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

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