I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Faith is believe.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - - but create!

It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.