I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.