Architecture is art, nothing else..

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to som….

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

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

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

The future of architecture is culture..

Architecture is the art of how to waste space..

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody..

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowl….

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build..

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

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly..

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston..

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one mu….

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river ….

Glibness will get your anywhere..

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful..

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner..

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in….

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original..