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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.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

A design isn’t finished until someone is using it.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Home is where you hang your architect.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

The room is there for the human being – not the human being for the room.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I’ve not had that kind of client so far.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.