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But mom, I am one of the greatest architects of all times, I'm
the founder of modern architecture, I can't do a traditional house
for y... Aouch! Okay, okay..
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A house is a machine for living in.
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so
resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to
laugh.
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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care
of themselves
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