Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I’m often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That’s impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
What people want, above all, is order.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
A house is a machine for living in.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
