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If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'
The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.
I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.
People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.
You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.'
Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!
Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context
The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.