We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.