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

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

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

Architecture is the art of how to waste space..

The future of architecture is culture..

Architecture is art, nothing else..

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….

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

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty borin….

Glibness will get your anywhere..

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School..

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

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

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

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space..

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 hi….

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 ….

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead..

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the sha….

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