A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
But what if we are dealing with fools?
Each material is only what we make it.
God is in the details.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
It is better to be good than to be original.
Less is more.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood.
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.
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.
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