A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.