Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

We live in a society in which unnecessary conformities are the very essence of necessity

We can't change what is coming. Something is always coming.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.