I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.