The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.