Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Form follows function.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.