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When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.
A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).
These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.
It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.
In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.
Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.
I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.
There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.
To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.
In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.
Something happens because something happens because something happens
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.
It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.
Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile