The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.