In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Buildings should serve people not the other way around.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.

I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you experience when you drive.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings why sit on the beach?

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

To me a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man he's made it out of his love for space materials things like that.

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

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.