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

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….

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

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it..

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

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

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

Architecture is art, nothing else..

Architecture is the art of how to waste space..

The future of architecture is culture..

Glibness will get your anywhere..

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 ….

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….

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect..

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

Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition amo….

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy t….

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral..

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a ….

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes..

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 ….